word2000 problem: disk is full or too many files are open

[abracadabra1]

I'm just posting an update to a problem I've encountered several times and have finally found a fix to it. This is extremely important for anyone that uses the Microsoft Equation Editor in Word.

The original post can be found here



<< i'm doing a lab write-up for bio and i do my routine alt-f-s to save my work and i get the wierdest message:
The disk is full or too many files are open.
i clikc ok, it asks if i want to retry the save, i click on yes and i get this message:
the disk is full trying to write to d:.... Free some space on this drive, or save the document on another disk.
Try one or more of the following:
*close any unneeded documents, programs, windows.
*save the document on another disk.

i treid saving to e,f,g,h and i got the same message too. btw, all my drive have at least 300 megs of space and i have a separate drive for swap file allocation

i have 256mb ram too...any ideas fellas? thx
win2k btw

note: i closed all windows except word and i got the same error. i even tried saving the file remotely and got the same error as well.
just 10 mins ago windows closed word because of some error so i'm worried about continuing my work and not being able to save it.
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Microsoft Support Fix

Essentially, Microsoft says to save the file in rich text format (*.rtf) and your problem is solved!

 

[bruincal]

hey thanks! i kept having this problem too! even when i had 3 gigs free on my drive ... when i was writing up my physics lab in Word, and used Save ... it would come up with that error message after a couple of saves ... the only problem is that will rtf save my graphs and embedded pictures??