Question:

Why am I sometimes unable to save COMPRESS files on a network drive?

Answer:

The occasional problem of re-saving files to a network drive is a known issue with the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library used by COMPRESS and many other Windows applications.

This problem has been reported by a small number of COMPRESS users and seems to be more common for users of Windows 2000.

Based on users' comments, we were able to reproduce the problem on our network. Because the problem stems from the actual operating system interface files provided by Microsoft, there is little that we can do at this time.

Some possible workarounds for this problem include:

Option 1:  Give the users full control permissions for the network directory.

Option 2:  The user can employ the file save-as command. When the file save dialog pops up, left-click on the old file once to get the file name, then right-click on the file and select delete. Then when user clicks "okay", they will not be overwriting a file and they should not get the error, although they will still be asked to confirm a file overwrite that never happens.