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.
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