Re: [libreoffice-users] "insufficient user rights" if I change the filename

       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  ;-)



On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>wrote:

At 08:09 01/08/2012 -0500, Anne Noname wrote:
> > 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  ;-)
>
> 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

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