Obviously the subject wasn't very informative... I'd appreciate if someone could assist me in figuring out what changed and why, and how I can accomplish the goal of being able to edit a document that resides in a directory where I only have read privs, but I have write privs to the file itself.
On 2010-01-07 1:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Situation: User has read permissions on a folder, but full control of a > file in that folder. > > I don't know when this behavior changed, but I *know* that in versions > previous to 3.1.1, users were able to edit documents like this, but now, > in 3.1.1 cannot, because Openoffice wants to create the temporary file > in the working directory just like Microsoft office does. > > In my opinion, OOo should NOT create the temp file in the working > directory (same directory as the original document), but instead should > use the users local Temp directory - or, at a minimum, it should *fall > back* to the users local Temp directory in the event that it is unable > to create it in the working directory. > > Can anyone confirm this? -- Best regards, Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
