[Solved] Error saving the document; error creating object.

[RA1]

I'm using o/s win 8.1 (basic).
A week ago I installed OO 4.0.1, and everything worked fine a while.
Last night, I tried to save a calc file I've been using and saving for days, and started getting an error message:

error saving the document xxx; error creating object. could not create backup copy

I searched the web, got some references to "profiles" maybe located in areas that win8.1 doesn't let me access.

What's going on, and how do I fix it?

I'd like to add 2 things: 1) I can save the doc by changing the name (ex: xx to xx2); also, I'm using the 64 bit version of Win 8.1.

Thanks, RA

[RoryOF]

Has your document got a three letter filetype? You may have to enable a setting to see this.It should have. If not, when naming your document, use /File /Save As and make sure the "automatic file name extension" box is checked.

Can you save a file from some other application, such as Notepad/Wordpad to that same directory?

[RoryOF]

Has your file opened "Read Only" (message in the title bar)? If so, close OpenOffice, enable viewing of hidden files and delete any lock file in the target directory.

[RA1]

Has your file opened "Read Only" (message in the title bar)? If so, close OpenOffice, enable viewing of hidden files and delete any lock file in the target directory.

No, it's not "read only".

[RoryOF]

File extension?

[RA1]

File extension?

It's x.ods.

I've had the same failure with an x.odt file.

This was not occurring over the previous 5 days -everything was working fine. I can't think of any change that might have brought it on.

[Hagar Delest]

Try to reset your OpenOffice user profile.

[RoryOF]

If you are using single character file names, try something longer. There may be some sort of parsing problem between the filename and the lock file. If the longer names work it is worth raising a bug.

[robweir]

If you are using single character file names, try something longer. There may be some sort of parsing problem between the filename and the lock file. If the longer names work it is worth raising a bug.

I tried on Windows 8.1 (64-bit) with AOO 4.0.1 en_US. I tried creating, loading and saving single character file names in Calc and Writer. I saw no problems.

-Rob

[RA1]

If you are using single character file names, try something longer. There may be some sort of parsing problem between the filename and the lock file. If the longer names work it is worth raising a bug.

I was giving examples of file extensions - my actual file names are not single letters, they're multiple alpha-numerics.

[RoryOF]

Have you tried the delete or rename of User Profile, as referenced in Hagar's message?

[RA1]

I think I've solved it.
I'm setting up a new computer and I'm switching from MS Office to OO.
After setting up a folder to send OO backups to manually, I renamed that folder without realizing that OO is always saving a backup, and when it couldn't find the old backup folder, it was balking and refusing to save anything.

Thanks for the help responses. RA