info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (07/26/84)
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@MIT-MC> Suppose I have a systems disk with nothing on it but MacWrite and MacPaint. I have a second drive with a disk containing correspondence and letterheads and varous other templates. The second disk has 300+K space available; the first doesn't have so much. I now crate a five-page document (single spaced) with MacWrite. I enter MacWrite by double-clicking on a template (letterhead) on the external disk (which has plenty space on it). When the document is finished I save it on the external drive. I now try to print my document. After interminable trundling, I am told (The Disk Is Full. Please Try Again." Trying again produces the same message. The only thing I have been able to do is to have a special systems disk that contains MacWrite and nothing else (other than the systems folder); meaning that I cannot have MacPaint available without swapping disks. Is there no way to make the Mac use the external disk which is nearly empty as the place to store the document prior to printing? Why for that matter does it need to store the whole damn document in the first place? And why can it not check for available space on the disk and INFORM ME INSTANTLY that the disk is full, instead of trundling for MINUTES before telling me "The Disk Is Full. Please Try Again" Have I done something wrong or is this just typical of what The Rest Of Us must endure?