Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Realizing, after what Axalon said, that perhaps I had messed up my
> permissions in StarOffice for good, I decided to download a completely
> new copy of SO51a from Sun. Before doing anything, I first deinstalled
> SO through SOSetup, then deleted every trace of my old SO, including
> Office51, the old binary and the .sversionrc file in my /home/sher
> directory.
>
> I then downloaded the new SO51a into my /home partition, specifically,
> into /home/sher, then moved it into /home/sher/SO:
> I then untarred so51a as USER in this same directory:
>
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 sher]$ cd SO
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ ls
> so51a_lnx_01.tar so51inst
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ ls -la
> total 69020
> drwxr-xr-x 3 sher sher 1024 Nov 30 22:36 .
> drwxr-x--- 29 sher sher 2048 Nov 30 22:51 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 70393856 Nov 30 22:28 so51a_lnx_01.tar
> drwxrwxr-x 4 sher sher 1024 Aug 24 07:07 so51inst
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$
>
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ cd so51inst
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 so51inst]$ ls
> documentation office51
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 so51inst]$ ls -la
> total 11
> drwxrwxr-x 4 sher sher 1024 Aug 24 07:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 sher sher 1024 Nov 30 22:36 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 2 sher sher 1024 May 11 1999 documentation
> drwxrwxr-x 2 sher sher 8192 Aug 24 06:44 office51
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 so51inst]$ cd office51
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 office51]$
>
> Below are the last files from office51 that relate to the setup. All of
> the files in office51 have the same permissions.
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 681 Aug 24 05:44 f_98_1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 81867 Aug 20 03:25 f_99_1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 1279166 Aug 23 06:52 f_9_1
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 sher sher 86960 Aug 11 06:49 setup
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 275547 Aug 24 06:40 setup.ins
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 7040582 Aug 24 06:44 setup.zip
> [sher@adsl-77-232-144 office51]$
>
> I then installed Office51 into my /home/sher/Office51 directory as
> prompted by SO.
>
> I then opened StarOffice and checked "Always create backup file" in
> Options, General, Save.
>
> No problem saving whatsoever. No error messages. But no backup either.
> Not by using SO's default directory for backups or my own
> /home/sher/docs. I can save into either directory but cannot create an
> automatic backup.
>
Let me see if I'm understanding correctly. You open a file, anyfile.txt,
and make some changes to this file and then SAVE. But the original file is
not saved/backup, anyfile.bak, in the ~/Office51/backup folder?
>
> Anyone have any idea what's holding things up? Why can I save but not
> backup?
>
> Thanks so very much to everyone.
>
> Benjamin
>
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