On Dec 18, 2009, at 23:45 , Barbara Duprey wrote: > Beckie answered me directly, so let's bring this back to the list. There is > definitely something strange going on here. > > ---------------------: > 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. > > > 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!
Well done, Barbara, you got a lot of information from Beckie with your mail. I noticed that Beckie said she had had a similar problem with Word, which makes me wonder whether she can save anything at all, and also how long she has had the computer. (Long enough that it runs Vista and not Windows 7 of course.) Sounds as though it could be a general problem with her disk, which is acting as a read-only unit. Tanstaafl's suggestion about running chkdsk should tell us that. But Beckie could make a simple test by, say, starting Notepad, writing a few characters and trying to save that. Beckie, does your email come into this computer? To be sure it is the system which writes incoming emails, but do you have any trouble sending an email and getting an entry in Sent Items? Does anyone else have access to this computer. If it's the family computer for example, and everyone has their own login, has someone changed the status of your account to, say, Guest instead of User? And then we have the problem of Chatur Vidur, who complains of the same thing on a Mac... I have a spare computer which doesn't have OOo on it - to be sure it's running Windows XP and not Vista, but I'll download a copy of 3.1.1 and see if I can repeat the problem. //James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
