Re: [LUG] Changing User ID.

[Julian Hall via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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