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Very slow editing doc loaded from network share
Folks:
I am encountering a situation where editing a Word doc which is loaded from a network share is extremely slow, whereas editing the same doc copied to a local drive is fast -- and for none of the simple reasons I guessed. More clues: -- Word 2003 SP2 -- Doc is about 500 K, and contains a large table about 10 columns wide and 8 pages long. Example slowness: move the table column width adjuster. On the local doc the reformat occurs immediately, on the network doc it takes seconds. Now the interesting clue: With FileMon I can see that in the case of the network doc, Word is doing an extensive amount of reading of little pieces of data from the file, constantly, and especially during this kind of edit. In the case of the local doc, Word seems to load the whole thing and rarely interact with the disk. Presumably, all that excessive file reading is slowing Word down. I've even tried to fool Word by setting up a mapping to the shared net drive (so it's now "drive X"), but no dice, same problem. Can't for the life of me think why the behaviour would be different in one case vs the other, or what option might impact this. Any ideas? Graham |
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Very slow editing doc loaded from network share
Wow -- John' s almost the man this evening! (If we ever cross paths at MVP
conf, one beer on me!) OK, so I did as you suggested and that seemed to make no difference. Same slowness, and that observation backed up with watching activity in Filemon. I tried various combos of those settings (also "Allow background saves") and didn't hit a good one. I also tried quitting and restarting Word each time in case this was a setting that takes effect only on start up. Then I noticed the "Make local copy of files stored on network". That one *did* have the desired result, including very low disk activity. So, I'm happy to have *a* way to proceed, but would also be open to further theories on how to do it better. Thanks for the very speedy and somewhere-near-the-bullseye reply! Graham "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in message ... Hi Graham: Go to ToolsOptionsSave and ensure that "Always make backup copy" is set to "ON" and "Allow fast saves" is set to OFF. |
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Very slow editing doc loaded from network share
{Blush} Sorry, I forgot about that one, sorry! :-)
On 29/7/06 2:57 PM, in article , "Graham Wideman [Visio MVP]" wrote: Wow -- John' s almost the man this evening! (If we ever cross paths at MVP conf, one beer on me!) OK, so I did as you suggested and that seemed to make no difference. Same slowness, and that observation backed up with watching activity in Filemon. I tried various combos of those settings (also "Allow background saves") and didn't hit a good one. I also tried quitting and restarting Word each time in case this was a setting that takes effect only on start up. Then I noticed the "Make local copy of files stored on network". That one *did* have the desired result, including very low disk activity. So, I'm happy to have *a* way to proceed, but would also be open to further theories on how to do it better. Thanks for the very speedy and somewhere-near-the-bullseye reply! Graham "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in message ... Hi Graham: Go to ToolsOptionsSave and ensure that "Always make backup copy" is set to "ON" and "Allow fast saves" is set to OFF. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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