Hello,
I am really confused about this. When I create an Open Office Document, then make a copy of that same Document and put it into my C Drive, it says I can only open it and Read Only. I cannot edit it.
I am having the same problems often with my files. How do I once and for all make it where I can use my own Files on my Computer?
Hi, where are you saving your files? What is the path to that folder?
Have you checked whether the file you are trying to open is in use by any other program?
Have you examined its permissions and properties?
Can you open any other file in the folder where you save the copy?
It does sound like @ClaudiaThompson is saving to the root of the C:\ drive (as I suspect you were hinting). That is a protected location and asks for administrative privileges just to copy a file there. It does indeed restrict editing of files in C:\ - for good reason, files in the root of C:\ are typically files that control booting the system.
If you must copy files to C: then create a sub-folder on C:\ to hold them.
Okay it took me awhile to understand what you meant but I went and put the same document from Open Offie from my Desktop into a folder in my C Drive and I was able to open it as normal and edit it. Then I went and did the same thing by saving the document right into my C: Drive and something popped up and was saying read only and do I have permission and all of that.
THANK YOU two for helping me with this!
Only one thing I still don't understand about this though? Why has it started doing this NOW, but not before now?
This strange stuff seemed to have all started ever since I had this One Drive thing on my computer and I have been having a very difficult time with everything since then.
I had noticed that everything from my Desktop and my Documents Folder and my Pictures Folder seemed to all be tied to the One Drive.
Why would it do this still, when I went and disabled One Drive?
I am practically clueless when it comes to computers, so I apologise for my ignorance.
Is there a way to just give myself permission to do everything? Because it nearly acts sort of scitzophrenic, like Me, the person with One Drive is one person and I am the other person. And its as if I have to give myself permission to do anything on my own computer. And it also acts as if even though I supposedly no longer have One Drive... that somehow its still around somewhere.
Hi, If you don't want Onedrive at all you can disable it and uninstall it.
Enable or Disable OneDrive Integration
There are two possible forms- an app from the store, and a manually downloadable desktop program. (Or at least there was- haven't checked recently).
You should be able to uninstall it after following the above tutorial:
By default, Onedrive syncs only limited items as you note.
A program may well save in the source folder; sometimes it's possible to set a default save path, depending on the options available.
If in doubt, you should be able to use File, Save As to set or check the output folder.
I don't use OneDrive, so I can't comment on that. But even without OneDrive if I try to copy any file to C:\ I get 'Access Denied, you need administrator permission to copy to this folder' and, if I click Continue, any document copied to C:\ opens as read-only in LibreOffice.
As far as I remember it's always been this way. I've just checked on a Windows 7 machine, exactly the same restrictions apply there too (admin permission required to copy to C:\, documents on C:\ open read-only).
Is there a way to just give myself permission to do everything?
Probably, but I'd strongly advise against it. The whole purpose of protecting the root folder on C:\ is to prevent malware from modifying/installing there, C:\ holds critical boot files. Relaxing permissions to make it easy for yourself would also make it easy for the malware. Much safer to get into the habit of using a sub-folder instead.
And I'm logged in as admin, and see this if I try to save to C: from a program:
- which might suggest that at some point you have changed permissions.
Thank you both again. I really do appreciate all of your help!
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