Broken pathway when saving files

Trio3b · General User Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 13

Think I broke something.......the only thing I changed recently was "looknfeel" in KDE.

at random, 2 problems:

1. when saving OO writer (text files), error message "nonexistent object" and "pathway does not exist". no matter what I do I cannot save the file.

2. Just closing an existing document changes the file extension and some files are being automatically closed as some sort of zip files that I can't open and others are being closed as PDF files that are mixed with other files, that is, the text from two completely different files is being displayed on the same page.

Yes I am being careful about the "save as" boxes, but I don't even save as, I just open a file, look at it then close.

What got broken?
Thanks for any help

RGB · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:54 am Post subject:

Your problem is just with OOo or also with other applications? If only with OOo, then you broke OOo... try to do a "repair" of your installation (in the main program folder, run the "setup" and then select repair)

Trio3b · General User Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 13

Seems to be only OO. Where is repair? Which main folder?
Am using Mandrake 10.0. Cannot find repair in help files or on main menu.

Also, can I try to repair the broken pathway before I try to repair the whole installation?
Thanks

joerg04 · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject:

Mine (Debian) files can be found under:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup
What about a simple search?
If you can't find yours wait for an answer of 9point9, cwchia or RGB(?, not sure if he still uses it) (or write them a PM), they also use Mandrake and maybe know it. A repair shouldn't cause to much trouble.
You should also do a quick search in some Mandrake forums, maybe it's a general problem.
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RGB · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

My last contact with mandrake was in version 8, and using StarOffice 5.2... Now I'm using SuSE 9.2 with a user install of OOo in my home directory, so I have no idea of where you can look. Try searching with kfind something like OpenOffice.org* (yes, with the asterisk). Inside that folder, you can find the setup utility.
Good luck

cwchia · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject:

Trio3b · General User Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 13

Think I had a file with one of the disallowed characters. Usually in word it will warn you about this specifically.
Will post again if this is not the problem
Thanks for the tips

cwchia · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: Re: Uh Oh