problems saving in openoffice

[H.S.]

Tim M wrote:
> I am trying to save a letter that I have started in Openoffice. I can
> write all I wish to but when I try to save I get this error message:
> 
> OpenOffice.org 2.3
> Error saving the document Untitled1:
> /home/lap1/Documents/jackie7.odt does not exist
> 
> Of course it doesn't exist I am creating it! I click Ok
> and another error message pops up saying:
> 
> Error saving the document Untitled1:
> General Error.
> General input/output error.
> 
> What do these messages mean and how can I save the letter I am writing?
> 
> Tim
> 

This is probably not the problem, but could you verify if your disk is
not full? I have seen some weird errors if there was not enough space on
the hard disk.

->HS