Fantastic Distro - Small Errors With Open Office

Heheheee · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:41 pm

Many thanks for this, it's great.

Some small, strange issues arise now and again. I cured the wifi loss after upgrading the kernel by recompiling the madwifi drivers without problems but:

Trying to save a file with Open Office results in the incorrect path to the directory being passed.

I.E. I try to save a document in my Documents directory and get:

'Error stating file /home/ubuntu/Documents: No such file or directory'.

The wrong path is being passed from the file selector, it should be '/home/<username>/Documents'.

Is there any way I can fix this? I am a Linux noob.

Heheheee · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:53 pm

Oho. I found a solution myself.

Open Office/Options/General/OpenSaveDialogues activate 'Use OpenOffice.org dialogues'.

Strange though. I wonder where OO is getting the wrong path from in the default dialogue.

boardboyd · **Joined:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:59 pm **Posts:** 1

@Hehehee:
If you do the option that you did, then go to Openoffice -> General -> Paths
and edit the save path (the one that is listed as /home/ubuntu/Documents) you can change it to your user path, then deactivate 'Use OpenOffice.org dialogues'.

Guitaraholic · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:27 pm

I believe this happens when you mount your home drive on the SDHC card not the SSD.....

its due to Open office not reading data from the other drive and it makes a default link.

Workaround is as started....change to save directory

Heheheee · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:32 pm

Indeed. I solved this a while back. There are a bunch of peculiar things that happen if you mount /home on another device.

Andreas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:23 am **Posts:** 5

I have the same problem on my 701, but I did install the home folder on the ssd, not on another device..

but my problem is fixed now

TheMonkeyMoo · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:25 am

The problem has nothing to do with where /home is mounted, as I had the same problem with my installation being completely contained on the SSD. If I recall correctly from the last time I did any playing around on Ubuntu from a live CD (as opposed to a direct install), 'ubuntu' is the name of the live CD user. As such, I suspect this is a case of improper migration from the live CD to an installed environment (most likely an oversight; I'm not sure how many places 'ubuntu' gets changed to 'YourUserName').

Regardless; it's at least an easily fixable problem, unlike the problems with StarOffice in the default Xandros (crashes on startup in Full Desktop Mode, only works in Easy Mode). boardboyd's solution:

Quote:

then go to Openoffice -> General -> Paths
and edit the save path (the one that is listed as /home/ubuntu/Documents) you can change it to your user path

works perfectly

Fantastic Distro - Small Errors With Open Office

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