OpenOffice does not save document

[Harald Grossauer]

I found this several times in different forums, but it has not been
answered yet:

I was working on an OpenOffice-Impress presentation. According to "save
early, save often" I hit the "save" button every few minutes. All of a
sudden OpenOffice told me "Write error. The document could not be written."

What to do now?

[Paul Almquist]

On Friday 01 July 2005 08:58, Harald Grossauer wrote:
>  I found this several times in different forums, but it has not been
>  answered yet:
>
>  I was working on an OpenOffice-Impress presentation. According to "save
>  early, save often" I hit the "save" button every few minutes. All of a
>  sudden OpenOffice told me "Write error. The document could not be written."
Did it give a reason the document could not be written?
>  What to do now? 
Are you out of disk space or free inodes?
Check in a terminal window for free disk space using:  df -h
Check for free inodes using:  df -hi  (this not likely the problem but still a 
possibility)
If out of space or inodes delete some files (your browser cache is a good 
place to start) or move them to another partition that has free space.

Are you having disk problems?  dmesg will display some kernel log info.
Also see:  /var/log/messages   (must be root to see)

Did you rename, move, or remove the directory that you were saving to?

OO has an automatic backup feature.  Use it.  (You may still want to save 
manually once in a while, too.)
Go to : Tools > Options > Load/Save > General
Turn on: AutoSave every and set the time interval (I use 5 minutes)
Turn on: Always create backup copy (That one saved the day for me a couple of 
weeks ago)   
To find out where the backup is written
go to : Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Paths > Backups



-- 
Paul Almquist
paul(a)almquist.name
Eau Claire, WI  USA

[Tom Broadhurst]

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Paul Almquist
>  Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:36 AM
>  To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>  Subject: Re: OpenOffice does not save document
>  
>  
>  On Friday 01 July 2005 08:58, Harald Grossauer wrote:
>  > I found this several times in different forums, but it has not been
>  > answered yet:
>  > 
SNIP-------
>  Are you out of disk space or free inodes?
>  Check in a terminal window for free disk space using:  df -h
>  Check for free inodes using:  df -hi  (this not likely the 
>  problem but still a 
>  possibility)
>  If out of space or inodes delete some files (your browser 
>  cache is a good 
>  place to start) or move them to another partition that has free space.
>  
>  Are you having disk problems?  dmesg will display some kernel 
>  log info.
>  Also see:  /var/log/messages   (must be root to see)
>  
>  Did you rename, move, or remove the directory that you were saving to?
>  
>  OO has an automatic backup feature.  Use it.  (You may still 
>  want to save 
>  manually once in a while, too.)
>  Go to : Tools > Options > Load/Save > General
>  Turn on: AutoSave every and set the time interval (I use 5 minutes)
>  Turn on: Always create backup copy (That one saved the day 
>  for me a couple of 
>  weeks ago)   
>  To find out where the backup is written
>  go to : Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Paths > Backups
>  
>  -- 
>  Paul Almquist
>  paul(a)almquist.name
>  Eau Claire, WI  USA
>   
Paul - 
I don't have a problem with OO, but would just like to thank you for a great
reply to Harald's question. Sometimes plain common sense answers are just
what we need.
Tom

[Paul Almquist]

On Friday 01 July 2005 10:49, Tom Broadhurst wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>  > [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Paul Almquist
>  > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:36 AM
>  > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>  > Subject: Re: OpenOffice does not save document
>  >
>  > On Friday 01 July 2005 08:58, Harald Grossauer wrote:
>  > > I found this several times in different forums, but it has not been
>  > > answered yet:
>
>  SNIP-------
>
>  > Are you out of disk space or free inodes?
>  > Check in a terminal window for free disk space using:  df -h
>  > Check for free inodes using:  df -hi  (this not likely the
>  > problem but still a
>  > possibility)
>  > If out of space or inodes delete some files (your browser
>  > cache is a good
>  > place to start) or move them to another partition that has free space.
>  >
>  > Are you having disk problems?  dmesg will display some kernel
>  > log info.
>  > Also see:  /var/log/messages   (must be root to see)
>  >
>  > Did you rename, move, or remove the directory that you were saving to?
>  >
>  > OO has an automatic backup feature.  Use it.  (You may still
>  > want to save
>  > manually once in a while, too.)
>  > Go to : Tools > Options > Load/Save > General
>  > Turn on: AutoSave every and set the time interval (I use 5 minutes)
>  > Turn on: Always create backup copy (That one saved the day
>  > for me a couple of
>  > weeks ago)
>  > To find out where the backup is written
>  > go to : Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Paths > Backups
>  >
>  > --
>  > Paul Almquist
>  > paul(a)almquist.name
>  > Eau Claire, WI  USA
>
>  Paul -
>  I don't have a problem with OO, but would just like to thank you for a
>  great reply to Harald's question. Sometimes plain common sense answers are
>  just what we need.
>  Tom 
Tom--
Thanks for the complement.  I retired a year ago after 35 years teaching 
computer technology and have lots of practice answering questions.

-- 
Paul Almquist
paul(a)almquist.name
Eau Claire, WI  USA