On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> First, my thanks to all of you who have written in with your
> suggestions. Unfortunately, none has yet really figured it out.
>
> Here is another piece of the puzzle:
>
> I installed and USED StarOffice 51 before several times, although as a
> back. At the time my default word processor was WordPerfect 8 for Linux.
> Now I have decided to reverse the situation and use StarOffice as my
> preferred word processor and WP as a backup.
>
> At any rate, I do not recall having any saving or backup problems in the
> past when I did use StarOffice, although I can't quite recall the
> specifics. But I am pretty sure I never had a problem with saving or
> backup in SO51.
>
> There is one variable that has changed in this picture: In this last
> installation of Mandrake 6.1 from my PowerPack CD, I added a separate
> /home partition and installed StarOffice in /home/sher. This is where I
> installed it before, too, but this time /home is a separate partition,
> while before it was part of the single / partition that Linux was
> installed into. In other words, I used to have / (hda1), a swap
> partition and /bs (hdb1). Now I have / (hda1, /home (hda3 and /bs
> (hdb1). Could this have anything to do with it? Everything is working
> fine, including StarOffice itself, apparently, except for this saving
> and backup problem.
>
Ben:
I have two drives in my system at home: one 850 meg IDE and
one 8.5 gig SCSI. I routinely save files on the SCSI drive
from within Star Office under various directories. I *do,*
however, have a symlink to the main directory tree I use
for storing from within Star Office on the IDE drive. I
don't know if that would make any difference to your setup
or not, however, I'm using SO5.1a (tarball installation)
and Mandrake 6.0 at home as well as SO5.1a and RedHat 6.0
on my work machine which has two separate IDE drives.
On NEITHER machine have I experienced any problems saving
on any directory on any drive. While SO *likes* to have all
the files it's using under it's directory structure, it's
by no means necessary.
Now, I've never used NFS, so I don't know if that could be
the problem, although my understanding is that NFS can be
tricky to implement.
John
