Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 26/03/2009 19:00, L. P. Prete wrote: >> The document I want to copy to a floppy is a simple letter, maybe 3 or >> 4 Kbytes. I used the word "send" rather than copy to replicate the >> command I am offered when I right-click on the file name as it is >> listed in My Documents. When I right-click, one of the options given >> me is to "Send To" four or five possible places. The one I choose is >> the D drive where my floppy is waiting. It works fine for any Word >> file or Spreadsheet file, but it will not accept the text file that I >> prepared with OpenOffice 3. Are you able to copy your text files to a >> floppy? If so, what commands do you use? >> >> --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Harold Fuchs wrote: >> >> From: Harold Fuchs >> Subject: Re: [users] Copy a Text File to a Floppy Disk >> To: [email protected], [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 3:42 PM >> >> On 24/03/2009 17:54, L. P. Prete wrote: >> >>> When I try to send my text documents to a floppy, I get a message >>> that the >>> >> disk cannot accept it. It takes Microsoft Word documents readily. What >> is the >> secret I have failed to discover in OpenOffice 3? >> >>> >> How big are the documents you want to put onto the floppy. Floppies >> can only >> take about 1.4 MB. >> >> Why do you use the word "send"? What are you actually doing, in >> detail? >> >> -- Harold Fuchs >> London, England >> Please reply *only* to [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> > I haven't used a floppy disk in maybe 5 years (my laptop doesn't have > one) but, if I did, I would double click it in Windows to open it like a > normal folder and then drag & drop the document from where it is to the > floppy. I have never used Send To so I don't even know what it is for. > It seems that Send To should work but I'm afraid I don't know why it > isn't. Perhaps someone else here can help. **Please** > The problem may be that the file is current open for editing in openoffice. There's nothing about an openoffice file that would prevent it being copied to a floppy, but if you have the file open, OOo's file locking feature may prevent it being copied. tc
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