PowerPoint two save progress boxes

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We are using Office 2007 SP1 with june patches.

When saving powerpoint files to a network drive we are noticing that there
are two save progress boxes - the normal green down the bottom and then a
windows 95 type version that pops up in the middle. Saves are taking ages
and sometimes crashes, an 8mb, 50 page document takes 5 minutes to save.

I have run the office diagnostics and found nothing. Saving the file
locally is quicker and the windows 95 progress box does not appear.

Any ideas?
 
Two, off top of head.
1) PPT2007 does display a progress dialog with a cancel button when saving from
2007 format back to the earlier 97-2003 format. It seems to do this when the
save takes longer than a certain amount of time.

Of course, it'll take longer to save a file across a network than to a local
drive, so it's more likely that the message will appear when saving to a
network.
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I understand this, but cannot find anything to confirm it. If there was
documentation which states that saving to network produces a "save as"
diaglogue then that would explain a few things. We are also using pure 2007
only powerpoint files which are showing the same problem.
Does that sound like what you're seeing? If so, it's not a problem of itself,
but obviously, it's not supposed to crash. Does it only crash when saving to a
network drive?
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Its the length of time taken to save a file and then the crashes that are
causing us the most grief. File that were taking 10 seconds to save are now
taking up to 5 minutes.
Most of the crashes are recoverable but staff are now saving files less
regularily and when they do there saving as a new version all the time. This
is the other strange thing - saving as a new file is quicker than an existing
file.
2) Do you have any kind of document management system installed? Sometimes
these can take over the save process.
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No we don't. I would like to as having 40 copies of the same 30mb
powerpoint file is very annoying and slows my backups.
 
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