Beckie answered me directly, so let's bring this back to the list. There
is definitely something strange going on here.
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Thank you for your fast response. I'm impressed!!
I think I've only seen one message here (in several years) where the
problem was not with permissions -- insufficient access privileges for
the destination location.
That is the problem I was having with Word when I put the new version on
this computer and that is why I went to Open Office, so I've seen that
message before, but not in Open Office.
You're going to have to give us a lot more
information before we can possibly help you. The only thing that I can
think of that would have to exist prior to the save is the directory
(folder) into which you are trying to save, not the file itself.
No, that isn't the problem. I've tried saving into both
computer/documents and onto the desktop.
If that is not the problem, tell us: what operating system you are
using;
Vista
what version of OOo;
OO 3.1.1
how you are creating the document;
I went to the main OO screen and clicked on the first box on the left -
I think it says Text document
what the document name is;
I have tried saving it as untitled, but I almost always change the name
- to test or in my last series of trials, OOtest, OOtest1, OOtest2, etc
what File option you are using;
I have tried saving by clicking the icon, by going into File and
clicking Save and by clicking Save As. When I clicked Save As, it went
into a non-responding mode.
what the destination location is;
As I said, either Computer/documents or desktop
what file type you are selecting;
I have tried the default: ODF Text Doc (.odt) and I have tried saving
it as a Word 97 (.doc)
and what you are filling into the file name field.
As I said, I've left it as untitled, but usually name it: ootest,
ootest1, etc or Test or Save
The message I get is:
"Error saving the document Untitled1:
c:\users\compter\documents\ootest.odt
does not exist"
Then a second message comes up:
"Error saving the document Untitled1
Write error
The file could not be written.
This happened when I first downloaded and installed OO. I uninstalled
it and just re-installed it yesterday. The results have been identical
each time.
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Beckie Stanevich
[email protected]
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I responded:
Ah! I think we may have something to work with here. When a document has
never been saved, either File > Save or File > Save As should end up at
the Save As dialog. If something is interfering with that dialog, the
message you got makes sense -- the File > Save dialog itself should
never be encountered for the first save, and that could account for the
error message. Since you've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but didn't
mention doing another download, maybe your downloaded file was corrupted
somehow? You can try downloading again, or checking the MD5SUM of the
downloaded file, to see if this helps. At any rate, maybe now somebody
else can help with what might be derailing the Save As dialog.
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And here's the latest. Beckie, please copy the list (not personal
addresses), so we all can see what's happening. Somebody else may be
able to help.
[email protected] wrote:
Ah! I think we may have something to work with here. When a
document has
never been saved, either File > Save or File > Save As should end
up at
the Save As dialog.
I just checked with another test document and gave it the Save As
command and it did come up to the Sevc As dialog box and then the rest
of the messages i've quoted before, so i guess that is not the problem.
Since you've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but didn't
mention doing another download, maybe your downloaded file was
corrupted
somehow?
I did download the program again. Same problem. No cure.
checking the MD5SUM of the downloaded file, to see if this helps.
I have no idea what that is.... Sorry, but I'm not a programmer.
Thanks!
Beckie
Ouch! Since your new download had the same problem, it's very unlikely
that file corruption is the problem, but FYI -- here is a link to the
MD5SUM information:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html
Remember the famous Chinese curse (probably apocryphal, but...) "May you
live in interesting times!"? Well, you've got an interesting problem! It
has to be something really rare about your setup, since we aren't seeing
it over and over again and there are a lot of people using the same
basic configuration (e.g., I'm using Vista Home Premium and OOo 3.1.1
myself). Hope somebody else can come up with something, certainly
nothing else is occurring to me. Good luck!
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