Microsoft KB Archive/20380

Word: Disk Usage and “Disk is Full” Error Message PSS ID Number: Q20380 Article last modified on 03-04-1993 PSS database name: M_WorD

1.00 1.05

MACINTOSH

Summary:

The possible causes of the error message “Disk is Full” when saving a file in versions 1.00 and 1.05 of Microsoft Word are as follows:

  Word requires a work space equal to the file size on disk, for example, if you are saving a 100K file, you will need another 100K on disk to save the file. Therefore, the largest file with which you can practically work on a 400K disk is a 200K file.   Having a reference in the Clipboard to a previous save. This means that nothing has been copied since the file was saved. This will happen only on the second save or later. Word assumes that you may want to paste from it, so a copy of the old file is saved on disk. The Clipboard does not hold the actual text, just a reference to it. To clear the Clipboard, do the following:  Type in some new text.

 Cut it.

 Repeat steps a and b (this is necessary to eliminate the possibility of causing the problem again by choosing Undo). 

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.