Not Enough Space to Save File in Write

• Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.11

SUMMARY

If you are using Microsoft Windows Write and you open a file on drive A, edit the file, and then save the file, one of the following error messages is displayed if there is not enough free space on the disk to open the size of the file you are modifying.

Windows 3.0, 3.0a

   Insufficient disk space; delete one or more files to increase
   available disk space, or save to a different disk.

Windows 3.1, 3.11

   Not enough disk space to complete this operation. Delete one or
   more files to increase available disk space and the try again.

MORE INFORMATION

To create its temporary file, Write requires at least an amount of free space on the disk equal to the size of the file, not counting the space occupied by the current version. This requirement is due to the way that Write (and all of the Microsoft word processing products) saves the file and makes a backup.

When you save new changes to an existing file (for example, A:\FILE.WRI), Write creates a temporary file on the same drive, and creates a new document with your changes (for example, A:\XXX.TMP). If that operation is successful, Write checks your Make Backup setting and, if appropriate, renames the original file to be the backup (for example, A:\FILE.WRI is renamed to A:\FILE.BKP) or deletes it. Finally, Write can rename the new temporary file to be your real document (for example, A:\XXX.TMP is renamed to A:\FILE.WRI).

This step takes advantage of the speed in renaming a file, rather than making a copy, so the TEMP environment variable is not used.