Space problems?

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or memory.
System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM. Can't recall
this happening before. Only running my usual Eudora and Firefox 4 tabs.
Tried removing one tab, no help. Also was running Kaspersky doing daily
update of databases and Quick and Rootkit scans of disk. Tried printing
during time between Kaspersky operations. No help.

Tried printing an email from Gmail. Failed. Said there was a 'popup'
doing something I don't recall. What's a popup? AFAIK not using any.

All these relating to an email I was trying to print. Finally printed it
bu pasting it into Notepad.

What's going on?

TIA


--
I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.

KenK wrote:

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or
memory. System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM.
Can't recall this happening before. Only running my usual Eudora and
Firefox 4 tabs. Tried removing one tab, no help. Also was running
Kaspersky doing daily update of databases and Quick and Rootkit scans
of disk. Tried printing during time between Kaspersky operations. No
help.

Tried printing an email from Gmail. Failed. Said there was a 'popup'
doing something I don't recall. What's a popup? AFAIK not using any.

All these relating to an email I was trying to print. Finally printed
it bu pasting it into Notepad.

What's going on?

TIA

Rule #1 Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Reboot or
shutdown

and power on)

It's amazing how many problems it fixes

JT

--

In message , JT
writes:
KenK wrote:

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or
memory. System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM.
[]
Tried printing an email from Gmail. Failed. Said there was a 'popup'
doing something I don't recall. What's a popup? AFAIK not using any.

(Normally, it means a window that appears unexpectedly, as they do to
tell you when an error occurs, for example, or for various irritating
reasons when using a web browser. But the word can have many meanings.)

All these relating to an email I was trying to print. Finally printed

Why were you trying to print the email in Word anyway? Or do you mean it
was a Word attachment to an email? If that, and you're using Eudora
(good software! But somewhat old ...) then at an outside guess, maybe
Eudora has some buffer size that was way bigger than anyone thought
would be needed, but struggles with a modern Word document, especially
the printing thereof, which does require a lot of memory. You could
prove (?) this hypothesis by saving the attachment to disc, then
printing it from Word from outside Eudora (even with Eudora not open).

it bu pasting it into Notepad.

What's going on?

TIA

Rule #1 Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Reboot or
shutdown

and power on)

It's amazing how many problems it fixes

JT

+1. Or closing and reopening Word; though if Word is being opened from
within Eudora, that might not work anyway.

If it's opening in Word because it's HTML, then Word is rubbish at HTML
anyway; I don't know if Eudora has its own list of "what do I use to
open xxx files" or uses the default Windows ones, but if it does have
its own, and there's an entry for HTML files that's set to Word, change
it to your browser of choice. (I assume your Windows default for HTML
files is your browser rather than Word.)

If ... because it's RTF (rich text format), then I think WordPad will do
it fine. And you will still have WordPad, even if you've installed Word
- just the latter will have taken over lots of defaults.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"If even one person" arguments allow the perfect to become the enemy of the
good, and thus they tend to cause more harm than good.
- Jimmy Akins quoted by Scott Adams, 2015-5-5

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in news:i$42BxUC
:

In message , JT
writes:
KenK wrote:

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or
memory. System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM.
[]
Tried printing an email from Gmail. Failed. Said there was a 'popup'
doing something I don't recall. What's a popup? AFAIK not using any.

Sorry, that should have been 'popup blocker' and I should turn it off.

(Normally, it means a window that appears unexpectedly, as they do to
tell you when an error occurs, for example, or for various irritating
reasons when using a web browser. But the word can have many meanings.)

All these relating to an email I was trying to print. Finally printed

Why were you trying to print the email in Word anyway?

Because Word wouldn't print it as I described previosly. Wanted a paper
copy of the email.

Or do you mean it
was a Word attachment to an email? If that, and you're using Eudora
(good software! But somewhat old ...) then at an outside guess, maybe
Eudora has some buffer size that was way bigger than anyone thought
would be needed, but struggles with a modern Word document, especially
the printing thereof, which does require a lot of memory. You could
prove (?) this hypothesis by saving the attachment to disc, then
printing it from Word from outside Eudora (even with Eudora not open).

it bu pasting it into Notepad.

What's going on?

TIA

Rule #1 Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Reboot or
shutdown

and power on)

It's amazing how many problems it fixes

JT

+1. Or closing and reopening Word; though if Word is being opened from
within Eudora, that might not work anyway.

No. Opened Word separatly.


If it's opening in Word because it's HTML, then Word is rubbish at HTML
anyway; I don't know if Eudora has its own list of "what do I use to
open xxx files" or uses the default Windows ones, but if it does have
its own, and there's an entry for HTML files that's set to Word, change
it to your browser of choice. (I assume your Windows default for HTML
files is your browser rather than Word.)

If ... because it's RTF (rich text format), then I think WordPad will
do
it fine. And you will still have WordPad, even if you've installed Word
- just the latter will have taken over lots of defaults.



--
I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.

In message , KenK
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in news:i$42BxUC
:

In message , JT
writes:
KenK wrote:

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or
memory. System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM.
[]
Why were you trying to print the email in Word anyway?

Because Word wouldn't print it as I described previosly. Wanted a paper
copy of the email.

So was it a Word document (that was _attached_ to an email), or the
email itself? If the email, I wouldn't be involving Word at all; all
email software that I know of has a "print the email I'm looking at"
function, that _doesn't_ involve Word at all; I'm pretty sure Eudora has
a print function.
[]
Rule #1 Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Reboot or
shutdown

and power on)

It's amazing how many problems it fixes

JT

+1. Or closing and reopening Word; though if Word is being opened from
within Eudora, that might not work anyway.

No. Opened Word separatly.


If it's opening in Word because it's HTML, then Word is rubbish at HTML
anyway; I don't know if Eudora has its own list of "what do I use to
open xxx files" or uses the default Windows ones, but if it does have
its own, and there's an entry for HTML files that's set to Word, change
it to your browser of choice. (I assume your Windows default for HTML
files is your browser rather than Word.)

If ... because it's RTF (rich text format), then I think WordPad will
do
it fine. And you will still have WordPad, even if you've installed Word
- just the latter will have taken over lots of defaults.



3
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Wisdom is the ability to cope. - the late (AB of C) Michael Ramsey,
quoted by Stephen Fry (RT 24-30 August 2013)

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in newsFbU
:

In message , KenK
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in news:i$42BxUC
:

In message , JT
writes:
KenK wrote:

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or
memory. System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM.
[]
Why were you trying to print the email in Word anyway?

Because Word wouldn't print it as I described previosly. Wanted a paper
copy of the email.

So was it a Word document (that was _attached_ to an email), or the
email itself? If the email, I wouldn't be involving Word at all; all
email software that I know of has a "print the email I'm looking at"
function, that _doesn't_ involve Word at all; I'm pretty sure Eudora
has
a print function.
[]


Sorry, stupid me. I meant that Gmail wouldn't print the document, not
Word.

To summerize:

Got an email response via Gmail. Wanted to print it. Gmail wouldn't print
it. So I copied it and pasted it to Word. Word wouldn't print it either.
So I pasted it to Notepad, which printed it successfully.

Rule #1 Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Reboot or
shutdown

and power on)

It's amazing how many problems it fixes

JT

+1. Or closing and reopening Word; though if Word is being opened
from
within Eudora, that might not work anyway.

No. Opened Word separatly.


If it's opening in Word because it's HTML, then Word is rubbish at
HTML
anyway; I don't know if Eudora has its own list of "what do I use to
open xxx files" or uses the default Windows ones, but if it does have
its own, and there's an entry for HTML files that's set to Word,
change
it to your browser of choice. (I assume your Windows default for HTML
files is your browser rather than Word.)

If ... because it's RTF (rich text format), then I think WordPad will
do
it fine. And you will still have WordPad, even if you've installed
Word
- just the latter will have taken over lots of defaults.



3



--
I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.

In message , KenK
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in newsFbU
:

In message , KenK
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in news:i$42BxUC
:

In message , JT
writes:
KenK wrote:

Had problems earlier this morning:

MS Word wouldn't print a document. Said not enough disk space or
memory. System has 49 G free space on drive C and uses 2 G of RAM.
[]
Why were you trying to print the email in Word anyway?

Because Word wouldn't print it as I described previosly. Wanted a paper
copy of the email.

So was it a Word document (that was _attached_ to an email), or the
email itself? If the email, I wouldn't be involving Word at all; all
email software that I know of has a "print the email I'm looking at"
function, that _doesn't_ involve Word at all; I'm pretty sure Eudora
has
a print function.
[]


Sorry, stupid me. I meant that Gmail wouldn't print the document, not
Word.

To summerize:

Got an email response via Gmail. Wanted to print it. Gmail wouldn't print
it. So I copied it and pasted it to Word. Word wouldn't print it either.
So I pasted it to Notepad, which printed it successfully.

I thought you were using Eudora for email, rather than Gmail?
[]
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Her [Valerie Singleton's] main job on /Blue Peter/ was to stop unpredictable
creatres running amok. And that was just John Noakes.
- Alison Pearson, RT 2014/9/6-12