TBrown Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Has anyone ever seen this error message: "Internal Error - General failure encountered during disk I/O operation. (Failure on attempt to open file)" It just pops up once in awhile, and there appears to be no common thread. It gives me the option to click OK and when I do, I continue on my way. I just find the message slightly intimidating sometimes. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Are you saving files on a network? Are you using a Mac or PC ? Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I usually see this (or something very like it) when on a Windows network and trying to open a file that someone else already has open. Quote Link to comment
TBrown Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Sorry. Mac OS, and we are on a network. Mac OSX 10.4.7 running on G5's. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I understand you are on a network, but are you saving the files to the network? Do you happen to get this message at a specific interval, such as the time you've specified for auto save? Are any other computers having this problem? Quote Link to comment
TBrown Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 No. We are not saving files to the network. Files are saved individually to the computers we are working on. We have an automatic back up system that updates everyday at a scheduled time, but there appears to be no connection to the time when back up occurs. We have only seen it on one computer of the 3 that we run VW on. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Does the message appear when first opening the file or when saving the file? When was the last time you ran disk utility? Quote Link to comment
TBrown Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 Since I posted the first message, we think we may have figured out what was up. The file that this message was occurring in was started on one computer and then sent over by email to another. The file was then saved to the desktop and not to a folder. After a specific folder was created and the file was saved and renamed the message has not reappeared. I don't know if this solves anything, but no error message is a good thing. Thanks for your help Katie. Quote Link to comment
socokid Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 We have a client that is seeing this now as well. Can save to a new folder created on his desktop, but not directly to anything that has this file already there. This happens to ALL files. Restarted several times, repaired local permissions, propagated permissions on the server. Nothing has helped. In other words, if we open this file from his desktop, we cannot save back to the desktop (get this message). If we try to save to the server where this file also resides, get this error message. Only saving it to a new place, or with a new name will allow it to save. But even then, trying to replace this new save over one of the original files, gives an error message (saying it is still in use, or something like that). No one else in the office is seeing this issue. Thank you. Quote Link to comment
joerg Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 happens here too on some files very strange...out of the blue!! any news here? my files are saved to a folder already...? but even when the error occures i can save...so i really don't know what happens...!:-((( Quote Link to comment
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