OpenOffice Writer, Error Writing File

I love OpenOffice.org, I think the team have done a splendid job, and I particularly can’t wait until OpenOffice 3 is released as outlined by OONinja.  Before I begin I wanted to clarify that I have nothing against the team, or the work they’re doing, just in case this seems like a true rant.

I’m a sucker for optimisation, and I particularly like keeping my "Temp" folder clear in "C:\Documents and Settings\Kezzer\Local Settings\Temp".  It gets full quite quickly with arbitrary files that serve no particular use.  I clear it out every few days and sometimes find 20MB > worth of temp files that serve no use.  At least, that’s what I thought.

Now onto OpenOffice Writer.  I’ve recently been getting error messages crop up saying "Error writing file" when attempting to save, or auto-save.  I would have edited a large portion of my document only to find I couldn’t save it.  I promptly copied the entire document and pasted it into a newly created one and was able to save it.  However, I had never put temporary files and writing file errors together, I had never seen the link and of course it may be hours until my document was saved after clearing the temp folder.

There’s a folder that exists in there (for me anyway) called "svhc4.tmp", if this folder is deleted then the relative OpenOffice session loses its ability to save the current file.  I assume the folder name is relative to the current session and perhaps is incremental.