Privacy policy. Check the spelling of the filename, and verify that the file location is correct. A DDE error has occurred, and a description of the error cannot be displayed because it is too long. If the filename or path is long, try renaming the file or copying it to a different folder.
This issue occurs because of a character limit on creating and saving files in Office products. This issue occurs if the path of the file that you open or save meets the following condition:. Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Access : The total length of the path and the file name, including file name extension, exceeds characters.
Microsoft Excel : The total length of the path and the file name, including file name extension, exceeds characters. This limit includes the three characters that represent the drive, the characters in folder names, backslash characters between folder names, and the characters in the file name itself.
Select the file, select the Open menu at the bottom of the window, and then select Open and Repair. This option repairs the damage to the file, and then opens the file.
To do this, begin working on the file, and make sure that everything is working as expected. You might be able to rescue a damaged file by resaving it in a different file format, and then reverting it to the original format.
This example uses Word. On the File menu, select Open , and then locate and open the damaged file. A bad Word crash at the wrong time and the consequences could be disastrous. This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Tuesday, June 17th, at pm and is filed under Macintosh. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Follow the links in this blog item :. I have this same problem! Any fix? Have office on OS X and a school full of kids, what a nightmare!
Someone please post a fix if you know of one. Sorry, no fix in sight from Microsoft. Microsoft would probably recommend saving local copies and transferring back. If you search the MS KB at. I posted earlier today, and after some more research found a partial solution here www. This is a workaround that apparently allows at least 60 saves before the error returns.
Anyway, initial tests using my home linux file server and an OSX mac client seem quite promising. Hope this helps! Thank you for all your posts. If anything else comes up let me know! In later versions of OS 9, however, this limit was bumped from a few hundred easily reached to several thousand. The bug exists in all versions of Word for the Mac since Will it be fixed in Word ? I am not holding my breath.
It seems that this bug — esp word 98 running in a classic environment is just hitting an apple file sharing limitation, or miscalculation by MS word. I have the same problem. We had the same problem with So it seems to be just word and another one of its famous annoying bugs. I can say though, that all the machines i have making backup copys and fast saves off seem not to have this problem.
My OS 9 machines do not have this bug. What a piece of crap! Finally you have a stable OS, and now Microsoft sneaks in the familiar old Windows problems! Piece of crap? The persistence of this bug throughout the past 6 years at least is scandalous. I still suspect it has to do with the number of open files, but only internally within Word itself.
Mac OS X has no problem having hundreds of files open as far as I can tell — but I suspect Word is simply not designed to handle the garbage it creates itself gracefully. Some kind of uncontrollable software pollution, I would say. Anyone out there have any solutions to this other then the backup idea. I have selected that and still the problem persists maybe I should just have all my macintosh users use Appleworks???? In my experience, saving documents from Word to a server is simply not reliable enough.
I feel much better recommending to people that they save their documents locally and then copy them to the server. Of course, this is not practical in all situations. See this recently released fix , for example.
But at least Apple are trying to eliminate the problem. I have roughly 11 Mac users in the building and of course the one that uses the server the most is having this problem. I have others that are able to save to the server fine, but this one employee continually gets too many files open error messages.
I removed office manually and installed the original non SP version still the problem persisted. The ironic thing here is that all of her preferences are still there and too this day I can not find where the OS keeps these. When I removed Office I removed the prefs files with it so I thought?
I am going to try using the uninistall utility that comes with office and see if that works. In the past on OS 9. I am starting to think this is not a Novell issue, but an Apple-Microsoft problem.
I am really concerned here, myself and another long time Mac user have been trying multiple things to fix the issue to no avail. One last thing we are going to try is saving to a Mac Server shared space. If that works my worries become greater and they are as follows. Apple OSX would then be the culprit, and it would appear from initial look that they want you to use Apple Servers for this kind of activity and have programmed code either knowingly or unknowingly into there software that limits the usefullness of other Networked environments.
This to me seems unlikely since everywhere you look Apple touts how multi-platform they are, but what is one supposed to think after going through all of this with no resolution in sight. Until this is resolved I am having her work locally and have created a script that she runs to copy the files to the server for backing up purposes that seems to work AOK for now, but when her team of writers come into town this shared space will be sorely missed.
Hope this helps. Then it tells me to try again with another disk or save to another location. I get the error when saving for time number 2 and above. In otherwords, I can open an existing file, change it, save it, and not get the error. Change it some more, save it a second time…bing, I got it. Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Word canot complete the operation because too many files are open. This thread is locked.
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