hi everyone,
lets say i'm on a 1000 some computer novell 5.x network and i run windows XP SP1, and office XP professinoal, and Norton antivirus 7.6 corp. and Groupwise 6. Let's say i want to browse some of my network mapped folders through "my computer."
easy, open up my computer, double click the network drive, and just keep going deeper into the tree. no problem.
now, open up microsoft word. Go File -> Open. Select the same network drive from the pull down list. Begin to go deeper into the tree. No problem. Get to the last folder (about 3 folders in) -double click on it and computer freezes up for ~3min... sometimes more, sometimes less - usually depending on how many files are actually in that folder. then all of a sudden the folder contents appear with no problem!
has anyone ever experienced anything like this?? we have tried plugging into different jacks across the hall. same thing. we have plugged other computers into this jack - and they work perfectly. is it possible that Word is searching the word files for something? or maybe some of those word documents are corrupt? but howcome you can browse to that folder fine in my computer. we have removed and reinstalled office xp.
i was basically just wondering if anyone has seen this or have any ideas. i think next i'm going to bring someone else's computer into this office, log on as me on that persons computer, and see if it happens or not.. that should determind whether or not the word documents are messed up or wtever.
but if no one has ideas - that's fine 🙂 but i was just wondering what you would try. Thanks!
-dave
lets say i'm on a 1000 some computer novell 5.x network and i run windows XP SP1, and office XP professinoal, and Norton antivirus 7.6 corp. and Groupwise 6. Let's say i want to browse some of my network mapped folders through "my computer."
easy, open up my computer, double click the network drive, and just keep going deeper into the tree. no problem.
now, open up microsoft word. Go File -> Open. Select the same network drive from the pull down list. Begin to go deeper into the tree. No problem. Get to the last folder (about 3 folders in) -double click on it and computer freezes up for ~3min... sometimes more, sometimes less - usually depending on how many files are actually in that folder. then all of a sudden the folder contents appear with no problem!
has anyone ever experienced anything like this?? we have tried plugging into different jacks across the hall. same thing. we have plugged other computers into this jack - and they work perfectly. is it possible that Word is searching the word files for something? or maybe some of those word documents are corrupt? but howcome you can browse to that folder fine in my computer. we have removed and reinstalled office xp.
i was basically just wondering if anyone has seen this or have any ideas. i think next i'm going to bring someone else's computer into this office, log on as me on that persons computer, and see if it happens or not.. that should determind whether or not the word documents are messed up or wtever.
but if no one has ideas - that's fine 🙂 but i was just wondering what you would try. Thanks!
-dave
