1. Student working with GIS Tutorial 1.
2. It is taking me ten minutes or more to “save” some map documents. To give a specific example, when creating a new map document and then, without adding anything to it – just doing a “save as”, it takes eight minutes. Looking at the file size in explorer, this new, saved as, file is 46,864 KB, whereas a “normal” file size, say from the “Maps” folder, is on the order of 500-700 KB. So, it appears that my new file is on the order of nearly a hundred times the size of a regular file. I am having to go read a book or something to pass the time while the “little circle” (Wait) goes round and round. Given the number of times you should, or are asked to, save during an exercise or assignment this is getting to be a real problem.
3. I do not remember having this problem when going through the book this last summer. I have reloaded (repaired) the application software and rebooted the computer. I have not tried the above specific example on the classroom computer.
4. Any ideas?
2. It is taking me ten minutes or more to “save” some map documents. To give a specific example, when creating a new map document and then, without adding anything to it – just doing a “save as”, it takes eight minutes. Looking at the file size in explorer, this new, saved as, file is 46,864 KB, whereas a “normal” file size, say from the “Maps” folder, is on the order of 500-700 KB. So, it appears that my new file is on the order of nearly a hundred times the size of a regular file. I am having to go read a book or something to pass the time while the “little circle” (Wait) goes round and round. Given the number of times you should, or are asked to, save during an exercise or assignment this is getting to be a real problem.
3. I do not remember having this problem when going through the book this last summer. I have reloaded (repaired) the application software and rebooted the computer. I have not tried the above specific example on the classroom computer.
4. Any ideas?