Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

On 10/05/2012 10:10 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
> Il 05/10/2012 11:07, John Clegg ha scritto:
> > One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO 
> > behaves
> > differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it 
> > places a
> > copy in the download folder/directory and Calc always opens it read-only
> > whereas Excel opens it as read-write. I would like at least an option to
> > get Calc to open it as read-write. To do so I have to save a copy
> > before I start, and as I do this around 100 times a day it becomes 
> > quite an
> > irritant.
>
> It's just a "modify document" button click away. But I guess it's more 
> a "problem" of the web browser or e-mail client rather than OOo/LibO 
> as such.
>
> The browser / e-mail client puts a read-only file in the user temp 
> folder, then passes its full path to OOo/LibO for reading. OOo/LibO 
> will just notice it's a readonly file and will behave accordingly.
>
> Hopefully someone with more technicall indsight into this can confirm 
> or correct me ?

This open as a read only is a "security feature" from before LO came 
out.  I remembering it doing the same with OpenOffice.org and MSO-2003.

The file, at least with Thunderbird, that come in an email attachment is 
stored in a TEMP folder.  Those files are, by nature, read-only till 
they get saved outside the TEMP [/tmp for Linux] folder.

I know it is a hassle for people but I really do not want to have any 
email attachments placed in a "normal" data folder without me saving it 
there.  That way I control what gets saved from the email and then all 
the other stuff is removed with the deletion cycle of the email client's 
TEMP folder content.

We must think safety first and deal with the hassles like this, or could 
suffer a email that places their attachment file anywhere it wants to be 
and may be overwrite a working file with the same name or worse a system 
file.



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