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Can't write/save Word 2000 documents to a 1 GB Lexmar USB flash drive/stick?
Hello,
I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on C: drive (HDD) and wanted to save to there. He keeps getting "directory not found" errors. We tried shorter filenames (e.g., test.doc) since he originally had a very long name, but that didn't help. Then, we tried using Windows Explorer to do copies from C: to E:, but that failed with the same error as well. Also, please note that was in the root directory of E: and the filenames he was trying to save are in English. I did noticed there were a bunch of other documents and folders/directories on E: that were like ______ because they were in Chinese (using IME?) in Windows 2000 and XP operating systems since he uses multiple computers. It seems like Windows 98 can't read these foreign names even though TwinBridge v4.98 (Chinese displayer and writer) is installed? These NT5 OS' use Office 2002/XP and 2003 with their latest service packs and patches. Are there incompatibilites with this setup to cause these save errors? Thank you in advance. Sincerely yours, Phillip Pi -- "I'm not a worker ant. I'm like a queen. Or maybe a king. But you never hear of king ants." --Sean Bentley /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Can't write/save Word 2000 documents to a 1 GB Lexmar USB flash drive/stick?
"Ant" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on C: drive (HDD) and wanted to save to there. He keeps getting "directory not found" errors. We tried shorter filenames (e.g., test.doc) since he originally had a very long name, but that didn't help. Then, we tried using Windows Explorer to do copies from C: to E:, but that failed with the same error as well. Also, please note that was in the root directory of E: and the filenames he was trying to save are in English. I did noticed there were a bunch of other documents and folders/directories on E: that were like ______ because they were in Chinese (using IME?) in Windows 2000 and XP operating systems since he uses multiple computers. Are you sure it is formatted FAT32 and not FAT(16)? FAT has a 512 dir entry limit in the root. Windows "Long names" use at least 2 entries per. I would imagine chinese long names use a lot more. If FAT32, there is a 64k directory entry limit. Much better than FAT16, but not out of reach. Try moving some files and/or folders out of the root. Subdivide. |
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Can't write/save Word 2000 documents to a 1 GB Lexmar USB flashdrive/stick?
On 3/8/2006 5:12 PM PT, Bill Blanton wrote:
"Ant" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on C: drive (HDD) and wanted to save to there. He keeps getting "directory not found" errors. We tried shorter filenames (e.g., test.doc) since he originally had a very long name, but that didn't help. Then, we tried using Windows Explorer to do copies from C: to E:, but that failed with the same error as well. Also, please note that was in the root directory of E: and the filenames he was trying to save are in English. I did noticed there were a bunch of other documents and folders/directories on E: that were like ______ because they were in Chinese (using IME?) in Windows 2000 and XP operating systems since he uses multiple computers. Are you sure it is formatted FAT32 and not FAT(16)? FAT has a 512 dir entry limit in the root. Windows "Long names" use at least 2 entries per. I would imagine chinese long names use a lot more. If FAT32, there is a 64k directory entry limit. Much better than FAT16, but not out of reach. Try moving some files and/or folders out of the root. Subdivide. I know it was FAT, but not sure which one. I read http://groups.google.com/group/micro...81e7c82623 5b (or http://tinyurl.com/fcpd7 if the first link fails). You were right about having a limit in thr oot location. Does NTFS and other FS' have also this problem? -- "Have I told you how much I like ants, huh? Especially fried in a subtle blend of mech fluid and grated gears?" --Rampage to Inferno, "Transmutate" in Transformers (Beast Wars) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:07:19 -0800, Ant put
finger to keyboard and composed: Hello, I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on C: drive (HDD) and wanted to save to there. He keeps getting "directory not found" errors. We tried shorter filenames (e.g., test.doc) since he originally had a very long name, but that didn't help. Then, we tried using Windows Explorer to do copies from C: to E:, but that failed with the same error as well. Also, please note that was in the root directory of E: and the filenames he was trying to save are in English. I did noticed there were a bunch of other documents and folders/directories on E: that were like ______ because they were in Chinese (using IME?) in Windows 2000 and XP operating systems since he uses multiple computers. It seems like Windows 98 can't read these foreign names even though TwinBridge v4.98 (Chinese displayer and writer) is installed? These NT5 OS' use Office 2002/XP and 2003 with their latest service packs and patches. Are there incompatibilites with this setup to cause these save errors? Thank you in advance. Sincerely yours, Phillip Pi I believe Explorer is attempting to display the contents of your root directory but is having trouble with certain characters in the filenames and/or subdirectory names. Have you tried copying your files from a DOS prompt? In the past I had an issue with a particular incoming email message that would cause my email client (Eudora) to crash. Here is an outline of my problem and how I resolved it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp....e=source&hl=en The problem was that the message contained non-English characters in the subject header, and the message contained an attachment. It appears that Eudora was attempting to save or process the attachment by creating a file with the same name as the message header. The subject contained the word "Voscilo", where the "s" and "c" were special accented characters. For some strange reason Eudora interpreted the "sc" as "\032\100\011" which meant that it was now looking for a non-existent subdirectory of that name. Here is the error message: Could not open the file C:\Eudora\Attach\Vo\032\100\011ilo.ems for writing Cause: No such file or directory exists - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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Ant wrote:
I know it was FAT, but not sure which one. I read http://groups.google.com/group/micro...81e7c82623 5b (or http://tinyurl.com/fcpd7 if the first link fails). You were right about having a limit in thr oot location. Does NTFS and other FS' have also this problem? NTFS does not have a limit on directory size, including the root directory. But the file system used more space for its various overhead purposes, which makes it less suitable for smaller devices. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) |
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On 3/9/2006 5:44 AM PT, Tim Slattery wrote:
I know it was FAT, but not sure which one. I read http://groups.google.com/group/micro...81e7c82623 5b (or http://tinyurl.com/fcpd7 if the first link fails). You were right about having a limit in thr oot location. Does NTFS and other FS' have also this problem? NTFS does not have a limit on directory size, including the root directory. But the file system used more space for its various overhead purposes, which makes it less suitable for smaller devices. Thanks. -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: YMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you. |
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Can't write/save Word 2000 documents to a 1 GB Lexmar USB flashdrive/stick?
On 3/8/2006 11:41 PM PT, Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:07:19 -0800, Ant put finger to keyboard and composed: Hello, I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on C: drive (HDD) and wanted to save to there. He keeps getting "directory not found" errors. We tried shorter filenames (e.g., test.doc) since he originally had a very long name, but that didn't help. Then, we tried using Windows Explorer to do copies from C: to E:, but that failed with the same error as well. Also, please note that was in the root directory of E: and the filenames he was trying to save are in English. I did noticed there were a bunch of other documents and folders/directories on E: that were like ______ because they were in Chinese (using IME?) in Windows 2000 and XP operating systems since he uses multiple computers. It seems like Windows 98 can't read these foreign names even though TwinBridge v4.98 (Chinese displayer and writer) is installed? These NT5 OS' use Office 2002/XP and 2003 with their latest service packs and patches. Are there incompatibilites with this setup to cause these save errors? Thank you in advance. Sincerely yours, Phillip Pi I believe Explorer is attempting to display the contents of your root directory but is having trouble with certain characters in the filenames and/or subdirectory names. Have you tried copying your files from a DOS prompt? In the past I had an issue with a particular incoming email message that would cause my email client (Eudora) to crash. Here is an outline of my problem and how I resolved it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp....e=source&hl=en The problem was that the message contained non-English characters in the subject header, and the message contained an attachment. It appears that Eudora was attempting to save or process the attachment by creating a file with the same name as the message header. The subject contained the word "Voscilo", where the "s" and "c" were special accented characters. For some strange reason Eudora interpreted the "sc" as "\032\100\011" which meant that it was now looking for a non-existent subdirectory of that name. Here is the error message: Could not open the file C:\Eudora\Attach\Vo\032\100\011ilo.ems for writing Cause: No such file or directory exists Actually, it wasn't the Chinese characters since we were able to reproduce it in 2K and XP. Since the file system was FAT (16 or 32 -- I don't remember), there was a limitation on the number of files and folders/directories to be in the root location after reading http://groups.google.com/group/micro...81e7c82623 5b (or http://tinyurl.com/fcpd7 if the first link fails). -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: YMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you. |
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AlmostBob wrote:
Anyone else find black humor in "Software Quality Assurance" & "Symantec" "Software" and "Quality Assurance" do it for me... |
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Anyone else find black humor in "Software Quality Assurance" & "Symantec" Definitely an oxymoron . . . . . . |
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