Issue 76203

Summary: OOo won't save to ODF files on shared drive
Product: General Reporter: nconantj <nconantj>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: eric.bachard, issues, kpalagin, rvojta
Version: OOo 2.4.1Keywords: oooqa
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: Windows, all   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---
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Description Flags
First Error Message
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Second Error Message -- Occurs at initial save and file changed save none

Description nconantj 2007-04-09 15:12:30 UTC
I'm running OOo 2.2 under Windows Vista Home Premium via Parallels Desktop on Mac OSX 10.4.9.

The issue is saving as an OpenDocument Spreadsheet to a Parallels Shared Folder.  When I try to save a 
new document (or current document under a different name), I get the following error message...

Error saving the document InsuranceCashFlow:  //Old file name
\\.PSF\Home Directory\Desktop\InsuranceCashFLow2.ods does not exist. //New file name with full 
path

When I click OK, the following error message comes up (it is the only message if I try to save changes to 
the same file name).

Error saving the document InsuranceCashFLow:
General Error.
General input/output error.

When I save an OpenDocument Spreadsheet to a local folder, no problem occurs.  Additional, no 
problem occurs with Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP formatted documents.
Comment 1 kpalagin 2007-04-10 12:37:35 UTC
nconantj,
please provide screenshot of the error message.
Also try saving text doc to the same location.
Comment 2 nconantj 2007-04-10 14:32:25 UTC
Created attachment 44316 [details]
First Error Message
Comment 3 nconantj 2007-04-10 14:33:42 UTC
Created attachment 44317 [details]
Second Error Message -- Occurs at initial save and file changed save
Comment 4 nconantj 2007-04-10 14:38:16 UTC
As can be seen by the screenshots, this problem also occurs in writer.
Comment 5 kpalagin 2007-04-11 05:03:33 UTC
nconantj,
so you are saying that only .ods and .odp formats are affected? And you can 
save .xls and .doc just fine?
Hopefully somebody with Mac will confirm the problem.
In the mean time try mapping the path to drive letter.

I am changing component to framework.
Comment 6 frank 2007-04-17 14:43:28 UTC
changed summary and re-assign to owner of component
Comment 7 thorsten.martens 2007-04-18 09:16:08 UTC
changed to porting because problem isn't reproducible on Win/PC, Linux or Sparc.
Comment 8 eric.bachard 2007-04-18 12:40:13 UTC
ericb->nconantj

Hi,

Looking at the screenshots, the issue occured using parallels, and I'd like to
add some comments :

- Parallels is a software still in development, and we have no guarantee
everything works, nor have (unfortunaly) enough ressources to verify this issue
( could be a bad parallels configuration or something like that )
- Parallels does virtualization : here Windows on Mac OS X
- this issue isn't repeatable on Windows (nor Linux nor Sparc), without use
parallels, but directly using Mac OS X (whatever version) ?

The best I can do is try to find somebody using parallels , to see if this issue
is reproducable.

my 2 cts
Comment 9 Martin Hollmichel 2007-09-07 14:11:16 UTC
set target to Please Help
Comment 10 rvojta 2009-01-27 08:10:05 UTC
It's weird, but I can confirm this issue.

Just some term definitions.

Shared folder (with uppercase S) - it's a special folder(s) to share files
between guest / host machine only. In VMWare Fusion, special hostname is created
(.host) to access these shares. These folders are mapped as drives and they are
normally visible in guest OS.

Folder shared (with lowercase s) - it's shared folder, not by Fusion / Paralles,
but by Mac OS X (Samba). These folders are accessible from all computers on the
network.

So, when I browse networks in Windows XP (guest), I can see my Mac 2x times -
".host" (Fusion) and "Robert Vojta" (Samba in Mac OS X).

I use VMWare Fusion and I've got the same error message. "\\.host\...\test.odt"
doesn't exist. My full path is:

 drive Z: is mapped as \\.host\Shared Folders\Shared folder

I can save any type of document to shared folder (Samba - Mac OS X). I can save
Word 97 (doc) to Shared folder (Fusion), but I *can't* save ODT to Shared folder
(Fusion).

I tested another applications like Wordpad, etc. and they are able to write to
all folders. As you can see, OO.o can store DOC there too, but no ODT.

I've no idea what can be wrong. If someone wants more info, just let me know.
Comment 11 rvojta 2009-01-27 08:50:19 UTC
And I tested it now with m37, which is the latest version I have and it works.
But another issue appears - I can save the file to Shared folder, but I can't
overwrite it. I can overwrite file in shared folder, but not in Shared folder.
Comment 12 rvojta 2009-01-27 08:57:46 UTC
Additional comment - this happens sometimes only and is not easily reproducible.
Really weird ...
Comment 13 Martin Hollmichel 2009-08-12 12:30:49 UTC
reassign
Comment 14 mikhail.voytenko 2009-08-13 07:45:15 UTC
Is the problem still reproducible with OOo3.1? There were big changes in storing
process, especially in locking process, after m37.
Comment 15 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:31:43 UTC
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".