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"Not enough memory or disk space" problem
Hi, all. Thanks for letting me join. I was working on a Word doc (Word 2003, Win XP, older computer with 12 GB free on its 80 GD HDD, 2 GB of RAM). I was pasting a number of images into the document, when it stopped responding to my keyboard. I could use the mouse to place the cursor, but could not add text, delete, backspace, etc. I closed everything down and rebooted. Now when I try to open the doc, I get a message in the lower left corner of the screen that "Word is converting [my filename]," and when the progress bar gets to the end, I get an error message that "There is not enough memory or disk space to complete the operation." The file is about 500kb so I don't think that is literally the reason; I think the file got corrupted somehow. I have tried opening it in OpenOffice, Wordpad, Notepad, and a few other editors to no avail, and I have tried "Open and Repair" with the same result. I suspect I am doomed and will have to create the doc again from scratch, but I hoped someone might have a brilliant suggestion. Thank you in advance. |
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Have you tried the "Recover Text from Any File" file type option? You might be able to save at least (some of) the text of the document.
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Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Microsoft 365 apps for business Windows 11 Professional |
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Thank you. I tried it and got the same error messages.
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It's a bad sign that "Recover Text..." doesn't work, either. The document may be lost forever. :-(
However, have you tried opening the file on another computer?
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It may not necessarily be our document, but something else. I would run a CHKDSK on your hard drive (Open a command window: Start | RUN | CMD (press Enter), type CHKDSK C: /F and press Enter. If you are running on an NTFS files system it will tell you it will run at next reboot. Answer 'Y'. Then reboot.)
Once that's completed, make sure your system is cleaned of temp files. Use a utility like CCleaner - available for free from www.piriform.com and run it. Once those steps are done, try again to see if you can recover your document. |
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Often enough, files just corrupt, without an underlying disk error. However, if there should be such an error, the hard disk needs to be replaced.
So-called cleaner software is usually superfluous, though. Some of these appllications cause harm rather than fix anything (for example because they delete registry entries that are required for an application to work properly).
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Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Microsoft 365 apps for business Windows 11 Professional |
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Yes, it may be the file truly is just corrupt. However, the conclusion that the hard disk needs to be replaced is premature. There are many things that might cause a bit, byte or even a sector to be written incorrectly. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is an inefficient waste of time and money.
And, the use of utilities that remove temporary files from one's system have shown time and again to not only free up disk space, but to clear up many problems that users might encounter while operating application in a Windows environment. |
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I have been taught that a disk with damaged sectors must be replaced, perhaps not immediately, but rather soon, even if CheckDisk manages to repair the damages. :-)
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Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Microsoft 365 apps for business Windows 11 Professional |
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And that's usually good advice, Stefan. However, CHKDSK does more than check a disk for damaged sectors.
It also checks file indexes among other things, and problems such as a bad write to the disk that fail a CRC check (or whatever method of verification the system uses). Indexes get messed up all the time, especially in a Windows environment, and running CHKDSK will allow the system to verify those indexes and rebuild them as necessary. As much as we'd like our computers to be infallible, they simply are not. A sudden power off or hiccup or an ill-timed whack on the side of the system case can cause problems. According to Microsoft: "CHKDSK examines disk space and disk use for the file allocation table (FAT) and NTFS file systems. CHKDSK provides information specific to each file system in a status report. The status report shows errors found in the file system. If you run CHKDSK without the /f command-line option on an active partition, it might report spurious errors because it cannot lock the drive. You should use CHKDSK occasionally on each disk to check for errors." (Emphasis is mine.) I've had the good fortune of working with MS-DOS since version 2.0 and Windows since version 1.0 and CHKDSK has saved me from many a problem, especially on systems that have had the operating system installed for more than a year. The longer the span of time an operating system is run without being reloaded from scratch, the greater your chances of problems occurring. I appreciate your comments. |
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