Error saving the document ...: Write Error. Error writing...

lsropia · General User Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

Sir,

Just some time back I am getting this message:

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Error saving the document ...: Write Error.
Error writing file .
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Also, no new writer document gets opened by "Ctrl+N" or "File->New->Text Document" form today.

I didnot get help on similar matter through the search on the forum.

Please help.

Alex

hol.sten

lsropia · General User Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

Forgot.

This is FC4 on compaq nx7010.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 and version:2.0.1

Some virus???

Alex

lsropia · General User Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

Sir,

There was a quick reply to my thread by hol.sten, asking for the details of OS, oo version and the source of the oo. I have replied that too as:

OS: FC4
oo: OpenOffice.org 2.0/ version: 2.0.1
download from the open office site "http://www.openoffice.org/"

When no help was received, I removed all the packages (rpm -e openoffice...) and re-installed, but no improvements.
The spreadsheet new files get opened and closed without any problems, right since the problem first noted for writer documents.

Please help.
Regards.

Alex

lsropia · General User Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

Sir,

Matter resolved.

For some reasons, I had made one directory "/tmp/openOffice" and set this as path in "Tools->Options->Path->Temprary Files".

This directory had root priviledges, and after setting the priviledged for the user, the delight of openoffice is back on.

Thanks & Regards.

Alex

Taybot · General User Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 6

isropia,

I'm having this same problem now. Can you plz explain how you "set the privileged for the user"

I don't know what this means and would like to get open office working correctly.

thx!!

thomasjk · Super User Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2310

You realize that this thread is four years old, don't you?

Taybot · General User Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 6

ha no i didn't realize that! Maybe Isropia isn't on here any longer but I'm having the same problem he was.

I have open office documents that I work on every day. When I work I hit save every few minutes. But sometimes I will put my computer to sleep, then when I open it back up and begin working again, I hit save and it shows me this message.

Error saving the document
Error writing File

If I close the documents every time I stop working, this message usually won't appear. But it is way easier to just keep everything open, since I work on it every day.

Right now, every time that happens, I just save it as a Microsoft Word document, (doc). I'm hoping that will make the error stop happening, but I'm not sure if that will cause a problem when I start uploading my work for people to review etc. I would like to just keep everything as ODT documents.

Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

thomasjk · Super User Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2310

Try resetting the user profile http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426

saved2serve · General User Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 22

This problem has been reported numerous times from at least 2005 from users with different operating systems, but when it happens to me, and I cannot save it anywhere, I copy all the content and paste it into a new document, and it saves fine. Thank God for OOo also.