I've gotten further information. She is using Open Office and she only has trouble saving presentations (slides) not docs. I'm going to have her remove Open Office and install Libre Office.

On 10/19/2014 11:17 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 09:03 AM 18/10/2014, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
I looked around a little bit and couldn't find anything directly relating to this on the net.

My buddy's daughter bought a notebook computer and suddenly I got an email in a panic that she couldn't save her file. Not a lot of detail, but a subsequent email said that once she plugged in, she could save.

Anyone ever heard of what's happening here? I have to get some detail as to what she's talking about. I have no idea what she is seeing when she 'can't save'. The operating system is Win8 but she's using Open Office (after I told them about Libre Office, sheesh).

I've never heard of that either - what sort of power setting would turn off hard drive writes? If one did, Windows would fail immediately as it couldn't access the page file or the temp folder.

I'd try it again to make sure it wasn't a fluke, and also check USB power settings in case the keyboard or mouse were being disabled.

T



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