Re: Hard drive frenzy!

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Uninstalling and reinstalling everything? You must LOVE shuffling
CDROMs around and entering serial numbers, right?!?

When you say you "inadvertently double-clicked one of the graphics"
was that double-clicking a file icon or double-clicking the image
inside of FrameMaker?

None of the programs that you uninstalled and reinstalled "own"
the TIFF (actually .TIF) file suffix (i.e., they are not the
owners according to the Windows registry. What you need to do
is find out which program "owns" TIFF. And one simple way to do
that is to right-click one of the icons for those TIFF files
and see if that gives any clues. A safer way might be to
open any file window and go to Tools=>Folder Options and then
select the File Types tab. Look for TIF and see what program
is invoked by it. Depending upon which program you find owns
TIFF, the advice would vary. If it is real software like Photoshop,
the problem is likely that the TIFF file might not be quite kosher,
i.e. a strange variant produced by your screen capture program 
that for some reason doesn't strictly follow the rules for TIFF.
If it is some other program, you may simply be dealing with
an image editor that only can process a subset of the TIFF spec.
In that case, you need to break the association of TIFF with that
program.

But first, find out which program owns TIFF and let us know.
And the interim, stop uninstalling and reinstalling everything.

        - Dov


At 2/25/2003 03:01 PM, Philip Odell wrote:
>Hello Framers,
>
>Has anyone experienced anything like this...........
>
>I have some referenced graphics (TIFF format) in a FrameMaker file. The
>TIFFs are screen captures via a program called Print Screen Delux. About a
>week ago I inadvertently double-clicked one of the graphics and obviously
>something then tried to open the TIFF file and sent my system and
>particularly the hard drive into a frenzy of activity which simply wouldn't
>stop. Eventually I closed everything (which took some time) and shut my
>laptop down. After starting it again everything was quiet until I tried to
>invoke an application. When I did this, the frenzied hard drive activity
>started again which just doesn't stop. After experimenting I found that it
>didn't matter what program I tried to start the result was the same. The
>task manager shows the system idle process to average around 98% and nothing
>else doing.
>
>I eventually un-installed Frame, Acrobat, InDesign and several other apps
>and re-installed them. Thankfully everything was fine until about an hour
>ago when I was aligning some graphics together within an anchored frame and
>again I inadvertently double-clicked one of them and wham everything went
>crazy again.
>
>I am running Windows 2000 professional on a Dell laptop with Frame 7.0p492.
>If anyone has any ideas or has had similar problems or knows what the
>problem is or might be, I'd love to hear about it.
>
>Thanks, Philip


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