Odd floppy drive behavior when using Crossover Office and SuSE 9.2
Hi, everyone. Hoping someone might have an idea and solution. I recently upgraded my Crossover Office to v 4.2. Have been using Crossover since v 3.0 and upgraded each new issue. Version 4.2 seems to work fine. But since the upgrade **every** time I open a Word, Powerpoint, or Excel file my floppy drive light comes on and the drive searches for media (which is not there). I am assuming this is not a damaging problem for my computer (other than extra wear and tear on the floppy drive). But I'm really wondering why it's happening, and if it's indicative of other, more serious problems that I should look into. Thoughts? (By the way, I no longer have the ability to post on the Crossover list serv). Thanks. Gil
On Monday 11 July 2005 03:50 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone. Hoping someone might have an idea and solution.
I recently upgraded my Crossover Office to v 4.2. Have been using Crossover since v 3.0 and upgraded each new issue.
Version 4.2 seems to work fine. But since the upgrade **every** time I open a Word, Powerpoint, or Excel file my floppy drive light comes on and the drive searches for media (which is not there).
I am assuming this is not a damaging problem for my computer (other than extra wear and tear on the floppy drive).
But I'm really wondering why it's happening, and if it's indicative of other, more serious problems that I should look into.
Thoughts?
(By the way, I no longer have the ability to post on the Crossover list serv).
I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the list. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 01:00, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 11 July 2005 03:50 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone. Hoping someone might have an idea and solution.
I recently upgraded my Crossover Office to v 4.2. Have been using Crossover since v 3.0 and upgraded each new issue.
Version 4.2 seems to work fine. But since the upgrade **every** time I open a Word, Powerpoint, or Excel file my floppy drive light comes on and the drive searches for media (which is not there).
I am assuming this is not a damaging problem for my computer (other than extra wear and tear on the floppy drive).
But I'm really wondering why it's happening, and if it's indicative of other, more serious problems that I should look into.
Thoughts?
(By the way, I no longer have the ability to post on the Crossover list serv).
I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the list.
Heck, the (real) Win XP box I'm forced to use at work regularly does a thrash-every-drive behavior when viewing directories that contain things "important" to windows. It looks to me to be things like backgrounds, and files on the most-recently-used list. It's windows, so it's a feature, not a bug, right? ;-)
** Reply to message from John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:00:15 -0800
On Monday 11 July 2005 03:50 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone. Hoping someone might have an idea and solution.
I recently upgraded my Crossover Office to v 4.2. Have been using Crossover since v 3.0 and upgraded each new issue.
Version 4.2 seems to work fine. But since the upgrade **every** time I open a Word, Powerpoint, or Excel file my floppy drive light comes on and the drive searches for media (which is not there).
I am assuming this is not a damaging problem for my computer (other than extra wear and tear on the floppy drive).
But I'm really wondering why it's happening, and if it's indicative of other, more serious problems that I should look into.
Thoughts?
(By the way, I no longer have the ability to post on the Crossover list serv).
I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the list.
Thanks for suggestion, John. Unfortunately it did not help. First I checked and verified that there were no recent documents accessed via the floppy drive. Then I changed my settings so that no "recently opened documents" were displayed. Then I closed Word and tried again. But the floppy is still hit everytime I open a Microsoft file. ;o( Gil
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:35 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:00:15 -0800
I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the list.
Thanks for suggestion, John. Unfortunately it did not help. First I checked and verified that there were no recent documents accessed via the floppy drive. Then I changed my settings so that no "recently opened documents" were displayed. Then I closed Word and tried again.
But the floppy is still hit everytime I open a Microsoft file. ;o(
I too had this problem with my CD drives as well. I ended up re-installing CXO and the problem went away. I couldn't figure out what was causing it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:35 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:00:15 -0800
I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the
On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 5:00 AM, Ken Schneider wrote: list.
Thanks for suggestion, John. Unfortunately it did not help. First I checked and verified that there were no recent documents accessed via the floppy drive. Then I changed my settings so that no "recently opened documents" were displayed. Then I closed Word and tried again.
But the floppy is still hit everytime I open a Microsoft file. ;o(
I too had this problem with my CD drives as well. I ended up re-installing CXO and the problem went away. I couldn't figure out what was causing it.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
What about Tools/Options/File Locations. Anything in there pointing to the floppy? Greg Wallace
** Reply to message from "Greg Wallace" <jgregw@acsalaska.net> on Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:16:11 -0800
On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 5:00 AM, Ken Schneider wrote:
** Reply to message from John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:00:15 -0800
I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:35 -0400, Gil Weber wrote: list.
Thanks for suggestion, John. Unfortunately it did not help. First I checked and verified that there were no recent documents accessed via the floppy drive. Then I changed my settings so that no "recently opened documents" were displayed. Then I closed Word and tried again.
But the floppy is still hit everytime I open a Microsoft file. ;o(
I too had this problem with my CD drives as well. I ended up re-installing CXO and the problem went away. I couldn't figure out what was causing it.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
What about Tools/Options/File Locations. Anything in there pointing to the floppy?
Greg Wallace
Ken and Greg, Thanks for suggestions. I uninstalled and then reinstalled CX office. Still the same problem. Interestingly, throughout the install process the floppy was constantly hit. I don't recall if that happened in prior installations, but the significant number of times the floppy was hit during this install really surprised me. I checked tools/options/file locations but don't see anything that indicates the floppy. My documents go to Y:\work (which is where I keep all Word, PPT, and Excel files). Of the other file types that are assigned, they're all pointing to C:\ If something is pointing to the floppy then I don't see it (or don't know how to read it with CX Office. My assumption would be that something pointing to the floppy would say A:\ ...) Thanks. Still looking for a solution. Gil
Some interesting new information I've just discovered regarding my constantly hit floppy using Crossover Office 4.2 and SuSE 9.2 When I click on configuration buttons/tabs in CXOffice my floppy gets hit. For example, I opened the Crossover Setup screen (where you add/remove software, set file associations, etc.) The floppy was hit. Then I clicked across the tabs: menus was not hit, but associations was hit, plugins was hit, fonts was hit, control panel was hit, settings was not hit. Then if I went back and clicked on the tabs again none of them were hit on the 2nd pass. If I closed the configuration screen and started over the tabs again hit the floppy. Very strange. ;o( Gil
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