WD2000: Document May Be Deleted When You Close File After Error Message "Word Cannot Complete the Save..." (249859)
The information in this article applies to:
This article was previously published under Q249859 SYMPTOMS
When you try to save a document on a disk with very low disk space, the save operation may fail, and you receive the following error message:
Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error.
When you close the document without saving changes, the document may be deleted from the disk. For additional information about a similar problem when saving a Word document opened in Internet Explorer, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
251474 WD2000: Error Message "Word Cannot Complete the Save" When You Save Document Opened in Internet Explorer
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).
To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the
article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
245025 OFF2000: How
to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.
IMPORTANT NOTE: SR-1 only fixes the problem of the file being deleted. You can still receive the error message when you try to save a file to a nearly full disk.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/26/2002 |
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| Keywords: | kbbug KB249859 |
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