Re: [libreoffice-users] Base fread-only
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 01:32 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: On 7/18/2012 1:05 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: It sounds like the file ownership got messed up. Depending on how comfortable you are with using the terminal I would use the following to change the ownership chown username path-to-file/file.ext For example the file is in your db sub folder of your Documents folder the path is /home/username/Documents/db. The username is your log on name for Ubuntu. May or may not be ownership. The above can't hurt, however if it's purely a permission problem then you probably want to do chmod 644 path-to-file/file.ext depending on your preferences. C'mon guys, I *said* I'd checked permissions. That should have given you a clue. But just to make it clear, I was a programmer for over 45 years. Much of that was at the system level on Unix. And if you'd read my query a little more carefully, you'd see that I'd referenced two different databases with the same permissions, one of which worked and one of which didn't. So far, I've gotten 3 responses, none of which were useful. Don't any of the LO gurus frequent this list? If not, I might as well unsubscribe. -- Larry Blanchard lbla...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Base fread-only
I have 2 databases created under OpenOffice 3.2 using Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Both databases have the same permissions and are in the same directory so the parent permissions are also the same. I purged OO and installed LO. Still using Ubuntu 10.04. If I open one of my databases in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 it works fine. If I open the other, I can read it but I cannot add a new record nor can I edit an existing record. It seems to somehow be marked as read-only. I have been unable to find a way to make it read/write. I got around the problem by exporting to a spreadsheet, creating a new database, and importing to that database. So I'm back in business. But for future reference, how the @#$%! do I make the original read/write or at least get some sort of error message - and yes I've checked the Linux log files for messages - no joy there. All help appreciated. -- Larry Blanchard lbla...@fastmail.fm -- Larry Blanchard lbla...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Base fread-only
On 07/18/2012 03:22 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote: I have 2 databases created under OpenOffice 3.2 using Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Both databases have the same permissions and are in the same directory so the parent permissions are also the same. I purged OO and installed LO. Still using Ubuntu 10.04. If I open one of my databases in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 it works fine. If I open the other, I can read it but I cannot add a new record nor can I edit an existing record. It seems to somehow be marked as read-only. I have been unable to find a way to make it read/write. I got around the problem by exporting to a spreadsheet, creating a new database, and importing to that database. So I'm back in business. But for future reference, how the @#$%! do I make the original read/write or at least get some sort of error message - and yes I've checked the Linux log files for messages - no joy there. All help appreciated. It sounds like the file ownership got messed up. Depending on how comfortable you are with using the terminal I would use the following to change the ownership chown username path-to-file/file.ext For example the file is in your db sub folder of your Documents folder the path is /home/username/Documents/db. The username is your log on name for Ubuntu. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Base fread-only
On 7/18/2012 1:05 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/18/2012 03:22 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote: So I'm back in business. But for future reference, how the @#$%! do I make the original read/write or at least get some sort of error message - and yes I've checked the Linux log files for messages - no joy there. All help appreciated. It sounds like the file ownership got messed up. Depending on how comfortable you are with using the terminal I would use the following to change the ownership chown username path-to-file/file.ext For example the file is in your db sub folder of your Documents folder the path is /home/username/Documents/db. The username is your log on name for Ubuntu. May or may not be ownership. The above can't hurt, however if it's purely a permission problem then you probably want to do chmod 644 path-to-file/file.ext depending on your preferences. The above will give read/write permission to the owner, read permission to anyone in your group, and read permission to the world (world being anyone on the same machine as you). Pretty standard permissions but you may want to deny all permission to group and world in which case you'd use 600 instead of 644. I have no idea what the application requires in terms of permissions, this is just a standard unix/Linux command. -- -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
