Description: When FODT and ODT files are saved from old/incorrect documents XML a misleading error is shown to the user: - Error in writing sub-document styles.xml - The file could not be written - Generic I/O error The problem has been tracked down to be an XML issue and not a permission issue. In the particular case once valid FODT files become invalid in later LibreOffice versions and require a certain degree of expertise to be fixed or even to detect the root cause of the problem. If needed a detailed thread on users@global.libreoffice.org can be found here: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg54342.html Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download http://paste.arn-fai.net/?2874269 and rename it to foo.fodt 2. Open with Writer 3. Save in FODT or ODT Actual Results: A misleading error message is shown. The same error is for permission issues, profile issues and more. In reality it's an XML validity error. Expected Results: The UI is not correctly describing what is an XML error and it should prompt a more specific error message (for example "Cannot save malformed XML") and maybe a technical detail could be outputted to in the console. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info:
Created attachment 151073 [details] fo.fodt
>A misleading error message is shown. confirming, if one tries to save as *.odt, error message changes: > Error saving the document fo: > Write Error. > Error in writing sub-document styles.xml.
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