Brian, that may be how your computer operates; that may be how other computers operate, but each of the computers I've had - including those I've seen of others - operates the way I so stated ;-)
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>wrote: At 08:09 01/08/2012 -0500, Anne Noname wrote: > >> if that was the reason for 'save' then it would save in the same folder, >> rather than some temp [?] folder with some strange name where it's not >> findable ;-) >> > > No application does that. "Save" in any application will save the revised > document over the existing file - in the same folder. If the document has > not been saved, "Save" will give you the "Save As" functionality instead, > landing you initially in whatever default folder you have configured (or > some default if you haven't). > > What you may be doing is opening attachments from received e-mail > messages. Such a document will not so far have been saved by you on your > system, so it may indeed be held in some difficult-to-find temporary folder > and "Save" will save your carefully edited version in a folder which will > be confusing and hard to find. But the solution is simple, of course: you > should save the document where you want it to reside before you start > editing. Then "Save" will do exactly what you need and expect. > > I think this same un-findable folder is used for saving when the program >> auto-saves; ... >> > > No: that will be a different place! The first folder is governed by your > e-mail application, but this one by LibreOffice. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- 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
