[sryanlb]

I have a brand new 17" iMac (OS 10.2, MS Word X) and I was writing a math test using the Equation Editor in many parts. As I finished I got a message saying that my 80GB hard drive was full and that word couldn't save the document to the hard drive. Then, a few minutes later, I got a message saying that the auto recover is now disabled until more space is available. I have my auto recover set for every 5 minutes. I printed out a copy, quit word, restarted my computer and could find no trace of any changes that I had spent 2.5 hours working on. I tried to locate the auto recovery file, but found that no such file or even folder existed. (I went to users/myname/documents.) Please help me, I'm very frustrated. I very recently made "The Switch" to Mac. Something similar to this problem happened a few months ago. Little was lost at the time so I thought it was a fluke.

[rockinphotog]

Do you actually have 80GB of data on your new HD? If you do, you should back some stuff up on removable disk or cd.

[kryanlb]

My hard drive is no where close to being full. I should have been more clear. Note that I am kryanlb now, not sryanlb.

[Noddy]

I've only ever seen this problem on a Windows machine. Not sure what causes it.