Hey, Roderick, Thanks for the response. I'm using Windows XP. How do I give myself permission to backup? Gerry
"G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:30 -0700, GERRY SCHMID wrote: > I'm using OpenOffice.org 1.1, copyright 2003 form Sun Microsystems, which I > just bought from Staples. In the Spreadsheet area, I created my first project > and saved it under "save as". After doing some more work on it, I tried to > save it by clicking on the "SAVE" icon. An error message appered that said, > "Could not create backup copy". I had to click on the OK button twice before > the spreadsheet screen reappeared. I then tried to close the project by > clicking on the " X " in the upper right corner but after being asked to > "SAVE, DISCARD or CANCEL", I received the same error message. So I can't get > out of the project unless I do a soft boot and I lose all my work that way. > > H E L P soon! ! ! > > Gerry Schmid Which OS? I will guess windows of some description. You have to give yourself permission to save in the directory where your personal copy of OOo is located. This could be under C:\Programs and Files \OpenOffice.org1.1\user\backup. XP is similar. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
