"insufficient user rights" if I change the filename

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#1

I'm using Libreoffice Writer on Gentoo Linux and I'm getting an error
telling me I have insufficient user rights when I try to save a
document to any filename other than the default "Untitled 1" which
saves fine. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

- Grant

#2

My first guess is that your file permissions are not set correctly for LO or for final document. If you save as "Untitiled-1", can you change the filename?

#3

are you perchance clicking on 'save' rather than 'save as'?

       I don't know why the 'save' is there :wink:

I'm using Libreoffice Writer on Gentoo Linux and I'm getting an error

#4

Could you be trying to save in a file folder where you do not have the rights to save to? Try saving in your "Home" or "Document" folder to see if this is the problem.

Cheers,

Marc

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
It's very weird that it allows one specific file-name but not others.  Perhaps the particular file-name that is NOT working is the name of a protected file in that folder? 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Obviously it is so that you can easily save changes to a file that has already been saved/named, without having to save it to an ever different name...

#7

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 :wink:

       I think this same un-findable folder is used for saving when the
program auto-saves;
          for that reason, I always turn off the auto-save ... [I think I'm
capable of knowing when & where to save :wink: ]
             [it's so frustrating since it always seems to happen right
when I'm in the middle of thinking through a thought I'm writing :wink: ]

#8

Am 31.07.2012 09:33, Grant wrote:

I'm using Libreoffice Writer on Gentoo Linux and I'm getting an error
telling me I have insufficient user rights when I try to save a
document to any filename other than the default "Untitled 1" which
saves fine. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

- Grant

Is it really that difficult to tell us everything about your file system, the path of the file, the file itself?

Your Linux file system is documented perfectly well in various man pages, tutorials, books throughout the internet.

cd /tmp
mkdir test
touch test/file
chmod -w test
cd test
mv file file2
mv: Verschieben von »file“ nach »file2“ nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
[mv: Moving "file" to "file2" impossible: insufficient user rights]
ls -ld .
dr-xr-xr-x 2 andreas andreas 4096 Aug 1 15:09 .
ls -l file
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andreas andreas 0 Aug 1 15:09 file

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
I change the default autosave time to something fairly long, around 1 hour or so.  So, if i do accidentally spend a lot tooo long making a cuppa tea then at least my work gets saved.

I think the default is fairly annoying but it depends on the person. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

As a "forced" Windoze user with nearly daily machine crashes (Blue Screen of Frustration anyone?) with a high loss record, I have my autosave set for every 5 minutes. I can live with the 3 second pauses. Well worth the potential loss of an hours worth of work that would be impossible to recreate.

#11

Hi :slight_smile:
Not even a virtual machine nor the Wubi would save you from the BSODs.  Thqanks for reminding me how lucky i am :smiley:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#12

Unless the machine only crashes on LO, I think there's something very much unkosher in your system, and you should find it and get it fixed. I used XP Pro and Win7 Pro quite a bit,
and NEVER saw a BSOD! BSODs stopped with Windows98, as far as I know. (Never used W2000 or Vista.)

--doug

#13

I've had BSODs and similar events with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 98, ... . I don't know, but I suspect that some of these may be hardware not software. Spencer

#14

I have seen a couple BSOD on Win XP and 7 but with much less frequency than with Win 98. I never determined the actual cause because they appeared more or less randomly.

#15

Am 01.08.2012 08:51, Marc Paré wrote:

Could you be trying to save in a file folder where you do not have the
rights to save to? Try saving in your "Home" or "Document" folder to see
if this is the problem.

Cheers,

Marc

This thread is symptomatic for the whole mailing list. Nobody has the most fundamental knowledge to solve a simple problem but dozends of people have to say something completely off topic.
You are on the right track. You may remove the write flag from a file so you can not modify the file anymore. A directory is a file which contains a list of regular files. When you remove write flag from a directory, you can not modify the list of files.

#16

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 :wink:

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

#17

Please don't top-post in a bottom/inline posted thread...

are you perchance clicking on 'save' rather than 'save as'?

I don't know why the 'save' is there;-)

Obviously it is so that you can easily save changes to a file that has
already been saved/named, without having to save it to an ever different
name...

> 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 :wink:

Perhaps you are confused...

It *does* save it in the same folder, because it simply saves the changes to the *same document*.

It only saves a document to the TEMP folder if you open it from an email, and then possibly only for certain mail clients (Thunderbird being one).

> I think this same un-findable folder is used for saving when the
> program auto-saves;

Again, you are badly mistaken.

If you create a document, and save it to a specific folder, then later open that document for editing, both saves and auto-saves simply save the changes to the document where it resides.

So... either you are badly mistaken, or your computer system is badly broken.

#18

These are almost *always one of two things:

1. Bad power supply, or

2. Bad video card/buggy video driver

#19

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 :wink:

#20

Good-oh! It follows, then, that I - along with millions of others with properly functioning operating systems - will not be able to help you.

Brian Barker