excel is not responding when saving to A: loading from A is ok. Task mgr says
not responding. Excel problem or machine?
Thanks

First, I wouldn't open a file directly from a floppy disk. Copy it to your
harddrive (or network drive) and open from there.

Lots of things can go wrong when working on floppies (in any application).



Curt wrote:

excel is not responding when saving to A: loading from A is ok. Task mgr says
not responding. Excel problem or machine?
Thanks

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Dave Peterson

And second, I didn't have a second.

Dave Peterson wrote:

First, I wouldn't open a file directly from a floppy disk. Copy it to your
harddrive (or network drive) and open from there.

Lots of things can go wrong when working on floppies (in any application).

Curt wrote:

excel is not responding when saving to A: loading from A is ok. Task mgr says
not responding. Excel problem or machine?
Thanks

--

Dave Peterson

--

Dave Peterson

I believe from what you say that I can and will copy to hd work on and save
then copy to A this works.
Thanks for input


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

First, I wouldn't open a file directly from a floppy disk. Copy it to your
harddrive (or network drive) and open from there.

Lots of things can go wrong when working on floppies (in any application).



Curt wrote:

excel is not responding when saving to A: loading from A is ok. Task mgr says
not responding. Excel problem or machine?
Thanks

--

Dave Peterson

1) Do what Dave Peterson told you.
2) When Excel saves a file, it first saves a copy to a temporary file, then
deletes the old file, and finally renames the temporary file. If the file is
on a floppy disk (or a small-capacity thumb drive) it is easy to exceeed the
capacity of the media - 1.4 Mb disk means that xls files over 600 Kb will
fail to save.

Ed Ferrero
www.edferrero.com

wrote in message
...
I believe from what you say that I can and will copy to hd work on and save
then copy to A this works.
Thanks for input


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

First, I wouldn't open a file directly from a floppy disk. Copy it to
your
harddrive (or network drive) and open from there.

Lots of things can go wrong when working on floppies (in any
application).



Curt wrote:

excel is not responding when saving to A: loading from A is ok. Task
mgr says
not responding. Excel problem or machine?
Thanks

--

Dave Peterson

Thank you for the explanition. I now understand what is happening.
Thanks Again

"Ed Ferrero" wrote:

1) Do what Dave Peterson told you.
2) When Excel saves a file, it first saves a copy to a temporary file, then
deletes the old file, and finally renames the temporary file. If the file is
on a floppy disk (or a small-capacity thumb drive) it is easy to exceeed the
capacity of the media - 1.4 Mb disk means that xls files over 600 Kb will
fail to save.

Ed Ferrero
www.edferrero.com

wrote in message
...
I believe from what you say that I can and will copy to hd work on and save
then copy to A this works.
Thanks for input


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

First, I wouldn't open a file directly from a floppy disk. Copy it to
your
harddrive (or network drive) and open from there.

Lots of things can go wrong when working on floppies (in any
application).



Curt wrote:

excel is not responding when saving to A: loading from A is ok. Task
mgr says
not responding. Excel problem or machine?
Thanks

--

Dave Peterson