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Old February 13th 05, 07:33 PM
Peaceworks
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Hi Everyone,
I've been purging and organizing my files, copying from the hard drive to
the floppy and vice versa. Each transfer is successful but in each instance I
get a message stating "The Target cannot handle this type of document". But I
click "OK" and everything appears fine. Can you tell me why this happens? And
should I do something to correct the problem?
I use WinXP Pro on an Intel Pentium lll, 256MB RAM.
Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for all the help in the past.
Terry
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Old February 14th 05, 04:41 AM
Walter Clayton
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What are you using to copy the data and what's the maximum file size so far?

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"Peaceworks" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,
I've been purging and organizing my files, copying from the hard drive to
the floppy and vice versa. Each transfer is successful but in each
instance I
get a message stating "The Target cannot handle this type of document".
But I
click "OK" and everything appears fine. Can you tell me why this happens?
And
should I do something to correct the problem?
I use WinXP Pro on an Intel Pentium lll, 256MB RAM.
Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for all the help in the past.
Terry
--
Peaceis not to be pursued; it is a by-product of love.


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Old February 15th 05, 07:41 AM
Peaceworks
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Hi Walter,
Thank you for responding. I copy the files in Word by selecting the drive,
arriving at the list of files and right-clicking. Then select "Move to". My
apologies for being relatively inept but I'm not sure what you mean by
"What's the maximum file size so far?" I have been working with new floppies
and the files are each one or two pages of text.
I hope this is the information you need in order to help.
Terry

"Walter Clayton" wrote:

What are you using to copy the data and what's the maximum file size so far?

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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Peaceworks" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,
I've been purging and organizing my files, copying from the hard drive to
the floppy and vice versa. Each transfer is successful but in each
instance I
get a message stating "The Target cannot handle this type of document".
But I
click "OK" and everything appears fine. Can you tell me why this happens?
And
should I do something to correct the problem?
I use WinXP Pro on an Intel Pentium lll, 256MB RAM.
Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for all the help in the past.
Terry
--
Peaceis not to be pursued; it is a by-product of love.



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Old February 15th 05, 03:57 PM
Jack E Martinelli
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In light of your new, additional information, Peaceworks, confirm that the
Word files, etc, which you are attempting to copy to floppy disk will fit on
the disk.

Consider installing a CD-RW drive to do this task much more efficiently.
760 MB on a CD disk vs. 1.44 MB on the floppy.
Using a compression utility to transfer the files will afford even more
storage ability.
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"Peaceworks" wrote in message
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Hi Walter,
Thank you for responding. I copy the files in Word by selecting the drive,
arriving at the list of files and right-clicking. Then select "Move to".

My
apologies for being relatively inept but I'm not sure what you mean by
"What's the maximum file size so far?" I have been working with new

floppies
and the files are each one or two pages of text.
I hope this is the information you need in order to help.
Terry

"Walter Clayton" wrote:

What are you using to copy the data and what's the maximum file size so

far?

--
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Peaceworks" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,
I've been purging and organizing my files, copying from the hard drive

to
the floppy and vice versa. Each transfer is successful but in each
instance I
get a message stating "The Target cannot handle this type of

document".
But I
click "OK" and everything appears fine. Can you tell me why this

happens?
And
should I do something to correct the problem?
I use WinXP Pro on an Intel Pentium lll, 256MB RAM.
Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for all the help in the

past.
Terry
--
Peaceis not to be pursued; it is a by-product of love.





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Old February 15th 05, 05:29 PM
Walter Clayton
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Default Transferring Files from one drive to another

You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data on a
diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less than that.

I've never heard of some one moving files via Word before, but that's ok.
Live and learn. I have Word 2003 on all my machines and I'm not seeing the
problem you're having. Although I haven't done anything directly with
diskette.

Rather than using Word, use explorer/MyComputer to move the data around,
unless you're needing to actually review data contents. Although it sounds
like you're not looking at content, simply using the file picker in Word to
move data around. Try explorer to see what happens.

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"Peaceworks" wrote in message
...
Hi Walter,
Thank you for responding. I copy the files in Word by selecting the drive,
arriving at the list of files and right-clicking. Then select "Move to".
My
apologies for being relatively inept but I'm not sure what you mean by
"What's the maximum file size so far?" I have been working with new
floppies
and the files are each one or two pages of text.
I hope this is the information you need in order to help.
Terry

"Walter Clayton" wrote:

What are you using to copy the data and what's the maximum file size so
far?

--
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Peaceworks" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,
I've been purging and organizing my files, copying from the hard drive
to
the floppy and vice versa. Each transfer is successful but in each
instance I
get a message stating "The Target cannot handle this type of document".
But I
click "OK" and everything appears fine. Can you tell me why this
happens?
And
should I do something to correct the problem?
I use WinXP Pro on an Intel Pentium lll, 256MB RAM.
Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for all the help in the
past.
Terry
--
Peaceis not to be pursued; it is a by-product of love.





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Old February 16th 05, 01:53 AM
Ian Hoare
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Salut/Hi Walter Clayton,

le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:36 -0500, tu disais/you said:-

You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data on a
diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less than that.


True, even though Word is a notorious waster of space. 1.44 million bytes is
1.44 million characters. That's a fair sized book if it were in ascii.
(Grin).

Sorry - couldn't resist. I have just been explaining to my wife why a little
file of a few thousand characters could suddenly grow like topsy just by
being saved as RTF, and then grow again by being loaded into a
wordprocessor, because of its capacity for saving much more information.

I just did the experiment

a file 18937 bytes in ascii became

21185 as rtf - just by having one single font and size applies throughout
the file.

When loaded and saved as a wordperfect document the identical file took
32271 bytes

When loaded into Word and then saved as a word document, it took 47104
bytes.

OK, 46k is far more than 18k, but my document was about 10 partly empty
pages. A 1.44 Mb diskette should hold 100 pages - even of Word document if
it consisted of nothing but simple text!
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Old February 16th 05, 04:18 PM
BBUNNY
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Ian Hoare wrote:
Salut/Hi Walter Clayton,

le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:36 -0500, tu disais/you said:-

You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data
on a diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less
than that.


True, even though Word is a notorious waster of space. 1.44 million
bytes is
1.44 million characters. That's a fair sized book if it were in ascii.
(Grin).

Sorry - couldn't resist. I have just been explaining to my wife why a
little file of a few thousand characters could suddenly grow like topsy
just by being saved as RTF, and then grow again by being loaded into a
wordprocessor, because of its capacity for saving much more information.

I just did the experiment

a file 18937 bytes in ascii became

21185 as rtf - just by having one single font and size applies
throughout the file.

When loaded and saved as a wordperfect document the identical file took
32271 bytes

When loaded into Word and then saved as a word document, it took 47104
bytes.

OK, 46k is far more than 18k, but my document was about 10 partly empty
pages. A 1.44 Mb diskette should hold 100 pages - even of Word document
if it consisted of nothing but simple text!


You might also add that 1,457,664 bytes on a FAT diskette is only 1.38MB.
The
standards with computer technology are really about close to none as one
could expect.


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Old February 16th 05, 07:15 PM
Colin Barnhorst
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Default Transferring Files from one drive to another

I prefer the Johnny Cochran method: "If it doesn't fit, you must then
quit."

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"BBUNNY" wrote in message
...
Ian Hoare wrote:
Salut/Hi Walter Clayton,

le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:36 -0500, tu disais/you said:-

You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data
on a diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less
than that.

True, even though Word is a notorious waster of space. 1.44 million
bytes is
1.44 million characters. That's a fair sized book if it were in ascii.
(Grin).

Sorry - couldn't resist. I have just been explaining to my wife why a
little file of a few thousand characters could suddenly grow like topsy
just by being saved as RTF, and then grow again by being loaded into a
wordprocessor, because of its capacity for saving much more information.

I just did the experiment

a file 18937 bytes in ascii became

21185 as rtf - just by having one single font and size applies
throughout the file.

When loaded and saved as a wordperfect document the identical file took
32271 bytes

When loaded into Word and then saved as a word document, it took 47104
bytes.

OK, 46k is far more than 18k, but my document was about 10 partly empty
pages. A 1.44 Mb diskette should hold 100 pages - even of Word document
if it consisted of nothing but simple text!


You might also add that 1,457,664 bytes on a FAT diskette is only 1.38MB.
The
standards with computer technology are really about close to none as one
could expect.




 




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