can't save documents

Asked by clive niall

when my daughter, in her portion of the computer, tries to save an Open Office 2.3 writer document, she can't. The menu, having pressed 'save as' simply disappears and the document is as far as I am aware, unsaved. Also I cannot open any existing documents via the open folder icon, it also just doesn't do anything. Can anybody help??
Thanks in anticipation.
C

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Karunesh Johri (kj-softprayog) said :
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Please look at the following:
(1) user-id of login
(2) ownership of the document
(1) is obviously the login-id, with which the user has logged in to the system. You may open a terminal and give following commands,

cd <directory> # where the document is located.
ls -ls <filename> # <filename> is the name of the file of the document.

This will give the owner and group-id of the document. Also permissions for read, write, execute will be given. Please see whether adequate permissions are there.

Also see whether you have the permission to write in the directory. You can give the command,

ls -lsa

The entry for "." gives the informaion about the current directory.

Regards,
Karunesh

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Madalyn (m-madalyn) said :
#2

When I scan I can't save it to "My Documents" on my computer. I have Ubuntu 8.2. How can I "save" to "My Documents?"

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Madalyn (m-madalyn) said :
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That answer did not address my problem

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
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Madalyn

Are you asking a new question on a really old question (posted in Oct 2008)? If you are, please post it as a new question and try and give us more information about what happens.

Tony

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