OpenOffice Writer, Error Writing File
by Kieran- Published:April 16th, 2008
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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.
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I’ve never encountered this before, but this isn’t really a new problem. Deleting temp files is generally best done when nothing is running precisely because you don’t know what apps are using them. Some apps keep active file locks on their temp files while running, some don’t.
Even so, you could always report is as a bug – the desired behaviour to try to recreate the .tmp folder that has been removed perhaps.
It’s not necessarily a bug, but there are applications which clear out temporary folders on a periodic basis therefore causing problems when saving documents.
I’m aware of individuals who do use such software although I’ve never heard of this problem. True though, you should only clear temporary files when all applications are closed, although I wouldn’t have expected it to interfere. It’s most probably by design anyway.
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