Hey everyone, I love discussions like this very one. It always serves as a reminder to me that a community of any type (computers, family, friends, church members) all may have lots of things in common, but are still very unique and different in their own way. I also grow to appreciate that being a part of a community helps me to be a better 'something'. In the case of this discussion, it helps me to be a better computer user!
As far as the error message goes. I have to agree with Harold, the OS should throw an error and the application should handle that error and/or display a relevant meaningful message to the user about what has gone wrong, or what the user(s) are doing wrong. As we all know, OOo runs on several OS's and there are several versions of OOo. That being said with each cycle of software release we hope OOo gets better. Same goes with the OS!! (Keep in mind, not all OS' are created equal) :-'> If you send or receive a file and that file has illegal characters in the name when you try to use or manipulate that file, you should receive an error (Which you are). So that is a good first start. The OS throws the error and OO displays it. The message should be meaningful and help you resolve the issue. Which it sounds like it does, you know if you remove the colon then you resolve your issue. Now, since we know that the first statements are true about multi-platform, free software etc, etc. We really can not expect anything more out of the application. (A free application at that) I would suggest you revisit WHY (I may have missed this in the thread) you need the colon in the filename?? Can the desired goal/outcome be achieved in a different way? Shawn -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Allan Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [users] Re: Saving Files with a colon in name Grover Blue wrote: > I think that we are off topic here. I'm not getting a message that the file > name is invalid. Rather, OOo gives me the message "You cannot save in the > URL location you specified. Please choose another location." This implies > something completely different, in that OOo seems to think I'm specifying a > location that is inaccessible or not understood. If that is not the > intention of the message, then it should be changed to better reflex it's > meaning. > > I'm trying too understand what's going that leads to that message. Presumably OpenOffice.org thinks that the colon has its usual meaning of terminating a device name. As it does not find a device or folder with the name preceding the colon, it tells you that you cannot save to that location. Jim Allan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
