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Libreoffice writer no longer saving documents

Asked by Alejandra

After updating libreoffice to:

Version: 4.4.5.2
Build ID: 40m0(Build:2)
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I can no longer save any Wordoffice 2010 documents (from my windows pc). It worked until recent update. And I now get the following message when trying to save any document:

Error saving the document redaccion_estudio_2:
Write Error. The file could not be written.

Distributor ID:Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Kernel: 3.11.0-26-generic
Os type: Linux
GCC version: 4.6 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
Xorg version: 1.14.6 (26 May 2014 01:41:36PM)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

apt-cache policy libreoffice

Thanks

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Alejandra (amachfern) said : 		#2

Hi,

the output to: apt-cache policy libreoffice is:

libreoffice:
  Installed: 1:4.4.5~rc2-0ubuntu1~precise1
  Candidate: 1:4.4.5~rc2-0ubuntu1~precise1
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.4.5~rc2-0ubuntu1~precise1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Then I suggest you contact the libreoffice PPA guys to report the issue. Did you try renaming the libreoffice configuration folder then rerunning the application to see if it helps?

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Alejandra (amachfern) said : 		#4

I will contact the libreoffice PPA guys then!

thank you

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