Now that you are accessing the drive remotely, there may be an account issue for providing anything but read-only access for access over your local network.
Do both of your machines receive only read-only access or is one of them able to write to the router-attached drive? (This was already asked but you might not have seen it.) You might want to look at restoring the drive to your laptop and figuring out a different sharing option, whether by copying the data to iCloud or some other shared storage solution that doesn't require both machines to be on to share files across them. It might be possible to populate a network-accessible drive in a way that works better than moving an attached drive to the network after population. That's an operating-system and network file-sharing issue and not something that OpenOffice solves. OpenOffice just uses what is visible via the computer operating system and account being used. - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Eldon Fredericks [mailto:fre...@purdue.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 11:54 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Change read only files to allow me to edit and save > revisions > > Should have described operating system. I’m using a mac with os x > 10.11.4 (el Capitan). Any suggestions? The files were created with the > Seagate drive connected directly to my laptop. Now I have the Seagate > connected to the router so I can get at the files from both my laptop > and my iMac. > > Thanks, > freder > > > On Apr 22, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 2016-04-22 18:47 GMT+02:00 Eldon Fredericks <fre...@purdue.edu>: > > > >> I have a whole bunch of files, both Open Office Writer and Open > Office > >> Calc files created by me and stored on a Seagate drive connected to > my > >> wireless router. > >> > >> I can see those files and I can retrieve them but I cannot modify nor > save > >> them. > >> > >> Is there a way to modify read only files to allow editing and saving? > >> > > > > Depends on why you can't modify them and what operating system you are > > running. If those files belongs to a different user (root, for > instance), > > then you probably wouldn't be able to open them at all, unless you > have > > group read rights. If, for some reason, your files doesn't have any > write > > rights, the same problem will occur. This is easily fixed for all your > > files with a one-liner in Bash, if you are on Linux or similar, using > a > > combination of find and chmod. For instance by looking for all files > in a > > certain directory (and sub directories) named (using regular > expressions) > > ”.*\.od[st]”, and change their permissions with chmod +w. > > > > And don't forget to do the same on your backup to AFTER you made sure > your > > one-liner actually works… > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > > > > > > >> > >> Thanks for any help. > >> > >> freder > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
