[Solved] Cannot save text file

[Qballgreg]

Version 4.1.6. When a text document attempt to ‘save as’ is executed, the program just grinds away and nothing happens....then I must shut down program and reload, then same thing occurs.....also,happened with 4.1.3

[RoryOF]

Check that Windows Defender has been told to allow OpenOffice save files in the target directory (or anywhere?)

[Qballgreg]

Where would OpenOffice appear in Windows Defender?

[robleyd]

There are a couple of links in this post that may be helpful.

[Qballgreg]

Perhaps my problem is being misunderstood...upon completing a document (everything is fine), as I hit the ‘save as’ button, the window pops up for selecting a location, but everything starts grinding away at that point. The little circular symbol going around signifying that the computer is executing something....continues apparently searching to end its cycle, but never does...so I cannot get to the point of selection a file location. I have checked to confirm that the correct file extension is set, instead of a .doc.

[John_Ha]

Give AOO permission to write to disk in Windows Defender. Google it if you don't know how.

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[Qballgreg]

Thanks so much for your input...I changed permissions as instructed to ‘everyone’, yet it does not change my problem. It seems as if it cannot find the location of the files or the path, or whatever. The ‘Quick Access’ file listing appears on the left side, while the main body says ‘working on it’...when I click on a file to the left, it then goes into a never ending busy like it can not locate what I have selected....I then need to close the program and start over to get it to stop looking....any additional advice would be helpful....

[robleyd]

Try changing this setting - Tools | Options | OpenOffice and under Open/Save dialogue boxes change the setting for Use OpenOffice dialogue boxes

[Qballgreg]

Thanks so much...I changed the ‘save as’ to the OpenOffice xml document and everything seems fine. It wasn’t exactly as you had requested, so I don’t know if I went astray somewhere, but the change is working....so a BIG THANK YOU!