Re: [WinMac] Re: Just Getting Started, please help

Dan Thurgood(dan[at]ergo-id.co.uk)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:57:13 -0500

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In answer to your question Dan, the problem is with Win machines running
Powerpoint 97 (Either as part of Office 97, or as a standalone
application). What we found was that as soon as we upgraded our Mac
Server to ASIP 6.1.1 (previously we had a PC station acting as a server
just for the PC's but this was getting impractical) and started to use
the SMB facility on ASIP, Powerpoint simply started to trash it's own
files. At first we thought it was a problem with ASIP, but careful
research (including a couple of submissions from this list) revealed it
to be a problem with Powerpoint 97. At first Apple gave a workaround ie
save files to local desktop, then copy to Server, but again this was very
impractical in a busy design consultancy. At last the answer appeared -
upgrade to Service Release 2. After literally 2 hours of trawling thru'
the waking nightmare that is Microsoft's website, I found the upgraders
and performed the necessary without a hitch. A week of testing seems to
have shown that the problem is solved but I want to carry on testing for
a few more days just to be on the safe side. As far as I know, the newer
versions of PPoint do not have this problem; whether it occurs on the Mac
version as well I'm afraid I don't know.

Hope this answers your query!

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