Dear friends: Realizing, after what Axalon said, that perhaps I had messed up my permissions in StarOffice for good, I decided to download a completely new copy of SO51a from Sun. Before doing anything, I first deinstalled SO through SOSetup, then deleted every trace of my old SO, including Office51, the old binary and the .sversionrc file in my /home/sher directory. I then downloaded the new SO51a into my /home partition, specifically, into /home/sher, then moved it into /home/sher/SO: I then untarred so51a as USER in this same directory: [sher@adsl-77-232-144 sher]$ cd SO [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ ls so51a_lnx_01.tar so51inst [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ ls -la total 69020 drwxr-xr-x 3 sher sher 1024 Nov 30 22:36 . drwxr-x--- 29 sher sher 2048 Nov 30 22:51 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 70393856 Nov 30 22:28 so51a_lnx_01.tar drwxrwxr-x 4 sher sher 1024 Aug 24 07:07 so51inst [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ [sher@adsl-77-232-144 SO]$ cd so51inst [sher@adsl-77-232-144 so51inst]$ ls documentation office51 [sher@adsl-77-232-144 so51inst]$ ls -la total 11 drwxrwxr-x 4 sher sher 1024 Aug 24 07:07 . drwxr-xr-x 3 sher sher 1024 Nov 30 22:36 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 sher sher 1024 May 11 1999 documentation drwxrwxr-x 2 sher sher 8192 Aug 24 06:44 office51 [sher@adsl-77-232-144 so51inst]$ cd office51 [sher@adsl-77-232-144 office51]$ Below are the last files from office51 that relate to the setup. All of the files in office51 have the same permissions. -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 681 Aug 24 05:44 f_98_1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 81867 Aug 20 03:25 f_99_1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 1279166 Aug 23 06:52 f_9_1 -rwxrwxr-x 1 sher sher 86960 Aug 11 06:49 setup -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 275547 Aug 24 06:40 setup.ins -rw-rw-r-- 1 sher sher 7040582 Aug 24 06:44 setup.zip [sher@adsl-77-232-144 office51]$ I then installed Office51 into my /home/sher/Office51 directory as prompted by SO. I then opened StarOffice and checked "Always create backup file" in Options, General, Save. No problem saving whatsoever. No error messages. But no backup either. Not by using SO's default directory for backups or my own /home/sher/docs. I can save into either directory but cannot create an automatic backup. Anyone have any idea what's holding things up? Why can I save but not backup? Thanks so very much to everyone. Benjamin Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
