Toshiba is old, has windows xp. I dont know how to check if it has read only permissions. But oo wont let me change it, and calls it an archival file. And when I tried to print it out at Fedex office, I couldnt. I had to go back to oo and save it as pdf in order to print it out. Also, when I installed oo, I had to put in a patch and re-install it. I didnt specify anything should be saved as archival. I uninstalled oo and am now ready to redo whatever. Should I just re download it and try it again? t G From: Jonathan <jonathan20...@netscape.net> To: users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Gael Buckley <gbusine...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 8:46 PM Subject: Re: Downloaded new version of open office Gael B. <gbusine...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Downloaded new version of open office > and all the files are saved read only. > All I did was > - buy a new hp15 f039 machine with windows 8.1 > - downloaded open office (just like 3 days ago) > - created a new simple text file (well, after I created a file with photos in > it, so I thought > Id be simpler) > (just hit new, typed in two sentences, and hit save as) > whether I save it as odt or doc or whatever, when I try to reopen it, no > changes are allowed. > That is all I did, I didnt customize the installation or anything. > > ???? Is it me, windows 8.1, or what? I have an old open office on my old > toshiba, works > fine. > Thanks Thanks for your detailed problem description. Does the Toshiba have Windows 8.1 also? Assuming that the problem only happens on one computer, I would like to double-check exactly what you mean by "read only": do you mean that the file was saved to disk with read-only permissions? Or do you ONLY mean that OpenOffice itself won't allow you to change the file, and that "read-only" appears in the title bar?