judylawson5 wrote:These solutions are not helping. I shall explain again. In a folder X, stored in documents, I try to open one of the odt files. It tells me it is locked for editing by an unknown user. I can open a read only copy - but I can't save any editing changes. So if instead of opening it, I transfer the file to the desktop - it opens properly - no trouble. If I then close it and put it back into the folder that is in Documents, it will not open properly. How do I fix this?
If there is no lock file for the file in the Documents folder, then something on your computer is blocking OpenOffice from writing to your Documents folder. You have to find out what is blocking OpenOffice and change the settings of that something to allow OpenOffice to save documents in the folder. Another user recently reported that Bitdefender was blocking OpenOffice and had to change some setting to "Allow". If you have Bitdefender or some other program providing anti-ransomware protection, then that's the place to start looking.
judylawson5 wrote:Further, When I click on the Document folder and click on properties in the folder, read only is checked. If I uncheck this - it does ask for administrator permission, but then finishes the job. Check again, and it is right. Go into the list of documents stored in the document folder and the properties on these folders have the read only checked, I click to uncheck them and it goes through the process, but at the end of it the file is still read only.
When the properties dialog of a folder is first opened, the "Read only" box should be filled, not checked. The filled box indicates that the user hasn't checked or unchecked the box. There should be a check mark in the box only if the user has manually clicked the box to display a check mark. Checking that box sets the Read only attribute for all documents in the folder. Unchecking the box unsets the Read only attribute for all documents in the folder.