[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113138] FILESAVE general input/output error on save, files truncated

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113138

--- Comment #12 from Saskia S <tupsuosu at gmail.com> ---
Similar, but not quite identical situation here: LO 6.2.5.2 on Arch Linux
running Linux 5.2.6 kernel; in my case the error was clearly linked to saving a
relatively large (340 KiB) .docx file into Dropbox and then attempting to save
again (regardless of save destination). Very small files appear unaffected; I
tested this by creating a new .docx file, saving to Dropbox, adding more text
and saving again (with no error). This seems to implicate Dropbox as doing
*something* with the file that causes LO to consider it corrupt/otherwise
unsaveable in this case; could it be that in the original filer's case, the
network drive management software or in the last two reports, something else
running is altering the files whilst LO still has them open?

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/134688/general-inputoutput-error-keeps-destroying-my-work/
This describes a set of similar issues.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/134688/general-inputoutput-error-keeps-destroying-my-work/?answer=168551#post-id-168551
This comment in particular seems to come to the same conclusions as me with
regards to Dropbox.

One very simplistic workaround that seems to work just fine is to copy the
entire contents of the affected document into a new file (via creating a new,
empty document in LO) and then saving it in a different location. I'm unsure if
this helps with the version in which the bug takes place while saving locally,
but it might be worth a try.

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