> Yeah - I tried saving a new .pptx file to two different USB thumb drives,
> closing PowerPoint 2008 and then reopening the file. I couldn't
reproduce
> your problem, unfortunately. One was a FAT16/MS-DOS drive (512MB); the
other
> was a FAT32/MS-DOS drive (1GB).
>
> You wrote that "If I try to save a new file there, it simply saves it in
my
> home folder instead" - this seems like an im****tant clue to what's going
on.
> Do you have any other USB or Firewire devices you can try saving to, to
see
> if the problem persists?
>
> Aside from the newsgroups and knowledgebase online, this kind of thing
makes
> me wonder what sort of direct sup****t Microsoft offers for PowerPoint
users.
> Checking out the sup****t.microsoft.com site, it looks like they will
sup****t
> you with one free phone request and one free e-mail request. Personally,
I
> think it's pretty paltry... but if you can't find your answer through
> newsgroups, the online knowledgebase or Google, it might be worth it to
bug
> Microsoft sup****t about it. All I can say is that the problem doesn't
occur
> on my end - but then again, I'm running Tiger, not Leopard, which may
make
> some kind of difference.
I have also tried it on two different thumb drives, with identical
results. Works fine with HFS+ (don't know about NTFS), but not FAT32.
maybe it is a bug with PowerPoint 08 and Leopard…
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