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turboedvo
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: I can't save anything in OpenOffice |
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Whenever I try to save anything in OpenOffice writer or impress, it tells me that the file does not exist and it is unable to save in a specific folder in my home folder. Any ideas why it is acting up?
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turboedvo
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OK, figured it out. Apparently I made my document directory with my root account and that set the folder permissions to prevent me from writing in the folder. Is there any way to set folder permissions after the fact?
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timeBandit
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For discussion's sake, let's say the troublesome folder is /home/myuser/trouble.
To fix it, become root, then:
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# cd /home/myuser
# chown myuser: trouble
# chmod 755 trouble
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That will change ownership to your regular user (myuser), and grant full access to the owner, read-only access to all others. If there are files/folders inside trouble already, use chown -R to fix them all (-R = recursive).
Once ownership is correct, you can fine-tune permissions with Properties dialogs in KDE/GNOME/etc. if needed. Or man chmod to learn more.
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