Re: [LUG] Changing User ID.

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

It now transpires that /no document/ will open in Open Office regardless 
of whether I created it on my laptop or the desktop. This is true for 
all files created before I updated Mint from 17.3 to 18. As I mentioned 
in another thread, my NFS shared NAS will not automount in Mint 18 
meaning I have to list it in the fstab and it mounts on first use. Could 
this be the problem, that when I mount it as a user for some reason 
Linux sees me as a different user from the one who wrote the file to the 
NAS? Would it be solved by getting it to automount?

Kind regards,

Julian

On 11/04/17 16:28, Julian Hall wrote:
> On 10/04/17 20:15, Julian Hall via list wrote:
> > On 10/04/17 17:45, mr meowski wrote:
> > > On 10/04/17 16:45, Julian Hall via list wrote:
> > >
> > > Is the problem just this?
> > >
> > > https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3827/doc-files-open-as-read-only/ 
> > >
> > >
> > > It's not a file permissions thing, I'm pretty sure it's just 
> > > libreoffice
> > > being a bit dim. Can you just re-enable r/w by toggling the "edit"
> > > switch as above? It might help to save a copy as a native .ods instead
> > > of .xls as well.
> > >
> > > Here you seem to have created such a file, but it has 0 file size for
> > > some reason:
> > >
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 julian julian      0 Apr 10  2017 Solar Production 
> > > 2017.ods
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 julian julian  22528 Mar  6 01:11 Solar Production 
> > > 2017.xls
> > >
> > > Perhaps you'd just created it and not saved it when you ran the ls
> > > command. Anyway, try CTRL+SHIFT+M to re-enable edit mode and see what
> > > that does.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > Many thanks Peter, Michael and mr meowski; I'll try the simple 
> > solution first. I have just discovered that Solar Production 2017.xls 
> > opened as Read Only will allow me to copy the individual sheets into 
> > a new file and save that in home/Documents. I'll try later and see if 
> > it lets me move it to the proper folder.
> >
> > BTW it's Open Office not Libre Office, but I will try that solution.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julian
> Hmm.. after much ranting - I'm not well at the moment - and cursing I 
> finally have the spreadsheets I needed back. Not by changing any 
> permissions I admit, but by opening them Read Only and Copy/Pasting 
> into a new document. The ranting was entirely due to Open Office Calc 
> crashing frequently. Towards the end I could barely get one alteration 
> entered before it died, and I do mean literally a single entry; I am 
> wondering now if that was the problem all along. Having made copies 
> first I will have to see if it crashes so regularly with other 
> spreadsheets, particularly in the same folder.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julian


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