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PC wont copy to disk or email

by Traceyy Nov 5, 2005 4:28PM PST

Hope someone can help, my PC no longer allows me to attach documents to email. If I create a document on the hard drive and wish to save it to a disk it will not save and the error message says a blank disk is full. When attaching a file to an email it goes through the motions but nothing happens it just keeps the loading file message. Any Ideas

Traceyyd1

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Tell more.
by Kees Bakker Nov 5, 2005 7:22PM PST

This seem to be two problems, and I'm not sure they are related:
1. You can't save a new document.
2. You can't attach a file to an e-mail.

First let's try making things a little bit more clear.
1. What's your OS (98, ME, XP)?
2. What program do you use to create the document?
3. You create the document on the hard drive. That goes well? Then you save it to a disk (what disk?) nad that gives an error message. Please give the full and exact text of the error message (without typos) so we can google it.
4. "A blank disk is full" seems to point to a diskette? Isn't the document to big for the diskette? How many kB in Explorer? And most of all, why do you copy it to a diskette if it's already on your hard drive.
5. "When attaching a file to an email ..." Any file? Or just this one? From the hard disk? How big is the file?
6. What email-program do you use?
7. What "loading file message". Never seen anyone on my Outlook Express".

Kees

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Save the document to your hard drive
by glb613 Nov 5, 2005 7:43PM PST

and see if the process works.

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Further Info
by Traceyy Nov 5, 2005 8:19PM PST

I run Windows 98. The document does save to the hard drive, but if I want to make a copy to take to work, it will not save to a floppy disk, I formatted a new disk twice, I reformatted an old disk in case the new one was faulty, it still would not save and no the file was not big it was a word document of 6 pages with three photos included. I opened a blank word document on the disk and then tried to copy and paste from the hard drive to the disk, this didnt work either when I tried to save it. The error message was the standard one A: disk is full delete some documents to make space, it was a blank 3 1/4" IBM imation disk.

I then tried to attach it to an email, so I could email the document to my work and hence the same problem occurred, whether they are related or not, I wouldnt have a clue

I use both yahoo and hotmail email, the loading message I spoke about was the one where an envelope moves from one to the other showing the message downloading to attach to the email. It would not work for either yahoo or hotmail. And yes I tried to save a different document just to make sure the project I was working on wasnt faulty.

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Re: document on diskette
by Kees Bakker Nov 5, 2005 10:34PM PST

Traceyy,

Photo's can be quite large. And 3 photo's could very well contain more bytes than is available on a diskette. Convince yourself by looking at the file size of the file on the hard disk. To fit on a diskette, it should be less than 1.4 Mb approximately.

If we assume the document is 3 Mb, and you're on a dial up modem (5 kB/sec) it would take some 600 seconds (10 minutes) to attach it to a mail on hotmail or yahoo.

The alternatives:
- Buy a USB-stick. It can contain 128 or 256 Mb and is much faster to use.
- Don't include the pictures themselves in the Word document, but only include a link to them (that's one of the options when inserting an object). Then the document will surely fit on one diskette, and each photo (assuming it's less than 1.4 Mb) on another one.
- Have patience with the email. There's no reason at all why a 3 Mb attachement couldn't be attached from the hard drive, as long as you don't get an error message and your email-provider (msn or yahoo) except messages that big.
- Get cable or ADSL - much faster connection.
- Use a zip-program with spanning option to 'copy' the document to as many diskettes as is needed.

Hope this helps.


Kees

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Kees right that floppy has not enough space!!!!
by Earth911 Nov 6, 2005 3:09AM PST

Get a CD-R BURNER

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