Toshiba is old, has windows xp. I dont know how to check if it has read only
permissions. But oo wont let me change it, and calls it an archival file. And
when I tried to print it out at Fedex office, I couldnt. I had to go back to
oo and save it as pdf in order to print it out. Also, when I installed oo, I
had to put in a patch and re-install it. I didnt specify anything should be
saved as archival.
I uninstalled oo and am now ready to redo whatever. Should I just re download
it and try it again?
t G
From: Jonathan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Gael Buckley <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Downloaded new version of open office
Gael B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Downloaded new version of open office
> and all the files are saved read only.
> All I did was
> - buy a new hp15 f039 machine with windows 8.1
> - downloaded open office (just like 3 days ago)
> - created a new simple text file (well, after I created a file with photos in
> it, so I thought
> Id be simpler)
> (just hit new, typed in two sentences, and hit save as)
> whether I save it as odt or doc or whatever, when I try to reopen it, no
> changes are allowed.
> That is all I did, I didnt customize the installation or anything.
>
> ???? Is it me, windows 8.1, or what? I have an old open office on my old
> toshiba, works
> fine.
> Thanks
Thanks for your detailed problem description. Does the Toshiba have
Windows 8.1 also?
Assuming that the problem only happens on one computer, I would like to
double-check exactly what you mean by "read only": do you mean that the
file was saved to disk with read-only permissions? Or do you ONLY mean
that OpenOffice itself won't allow you to change the file, and that
"read-only" appears in the title bar?
