[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128526] Catalina: Can't open attachments in Mail due to Lock File issues (full disk access workaround)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128526

--- Comment #10 from Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> ---
For me, using LibreOffice 6.4.3.2, the "Document Could Not Be Locked" dialog
offers the possibility to open the document read-only, which makes sense. (What
would it even mean to be editing a document that is actually an attachment to
an email message? You wouldn't be modifying the attachment even if you would
make changes and save them. You would just pointlessly be modifying a temporary
file created by Mail.app) which is a preferable workaround than granting full
access, don't you think? If you then do a File > Save As, the document can be
edited normally.

Would an acceptable fix be to simply get rid of the "Document Could Not Be
Locked" dialog, and instead just open the document read-only?

Bob, if your "Expected Result" is "A fully read/write document", where would
that document be stored? Note that the attachment that Mail.app writes to disk
is in a scratch location, like
/Users/tml/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail
Downloads/DF2EC83C-48C4-4E39-9D56-5FC036385737/AAA1.odt . That folder is not
one the users is supposed to be poking into.

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