Thanks Dwight Although I know I should use my computer under a restricted account for security reasons but I'm afraid I don't. All my work is done in a privileged account so I don't think it's an access problem.
Having said that, I should at least try a re-install. I'll let you know how it goes. Steve On Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:26:16 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > I was plagued by a message like this a few years ago. Eventually it turned > out that I had installed MLO under my computer’s sysadmin ID but I was > accessing MLO under my restricted user ID. The The restricted ID was able > to read but not write some directories belonging to sysadmin where some MLO > files were being kept. My cure was to reinstall MLO under the restricted > user ID. I’m not saying that you did the same thing, but I think the lesson > was to make very sure that add MLO files are in directories writable by the > current user ID. I’m not sure that the opffending file was actually the > profile file. > > -Dwight > > > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *Steve Gledhill > *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2014 9:34 AM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* [MLO] Error message: Could not overwrite file. Make sure it is > not read only and mlo has access to it. > > > > I have been receiving this message for months now: > > > > "Could not overwrite file.".... mydocs\myfilename.ml" Make sure it is not > read only and mlo has access to it." See attached image. > > > > At first I thought this was because it was stored in dropbox. I have cloud > sync so I removed it from dropbox and any other file syncing folder but I > still get this. I removed the folder from my Carbonite backup program as > well so that there is no conflict. > > > > These messages repeat every few minutes and sometimes I return to the > computer to see a lovely cascading pattern of error boxes. > > > > I wonder if anyone has seen similar behaviour and has a solution they > could share? My workaround is to clear the error messages and quickly save > the file under a different name! > > > > I have mlo 4.3.1.2445 FINAL and W8.1 64bit > > > > thank you > > > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/ff4f7fe5-b89e-4f94-97a9-c6f0b30c0f54%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/ff4f7fe5-b89e-4f94-97a9-c6f0b30c0f54%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/577c987d-3607-4728-91ea-82a0c6dbc316%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
