Cannot save in any location

I have created a wordpad document but I cannot save it anywhere. The first
place I tried was /user/Documents but it says 'You can't save in this
location. Please choose another location'. I tried saving in the root
directory, same message. I tried creating a new folder in Documents and
saving to that. Still refuses to save. This is incredibly annoying. This
program comes with Vista and yet it is unable to save the contents of a file
even to my own documents. I tried OpenOffice and that came up with the same
message. My Documents folder properties show it is 'read only'. I have tried
unchecking this option but it keeps restoring it to read only. Can someone
please tell me how to save a file under Windows Vista?

I have since solved this problem and feel very stupid. I was trying to save
using a filename containing a colon. This is the first file I have tried to
save so I assumed something was wrong with my install. I can't help feeling
the error message was slightly misleading though.

"User7684" wrote:

> I have created a wordpad document but I cannot save it anywhere. The first
> place I tried was /user/Documents but it says 'You can't save in this
> location. Please choose another location'. I tried saving in the root
> directory, same message. I tried creating a new folder in Documents and
> saving to that. Still refuses to save. This is incredibly annoying. This
> program comes with Vista and yet it is unable to save the contents of a file
> even to my own documents. I tried OpenOffice and that came up with the same
> message. My Documents folder properties show it is 'read only'. I have tried
> unchecking this option but it keeps restoring it to read only. Can someone
> please tell me how to save a file under Windows Vista?

thanks for posting back.
I agree, the message could have been more informative.



"User7684" <User7684@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:957B5705-4EE2-4F5D-BA19-7331673D69B9@microsoft.com...
>I have since solved this problem and feel very stupid. I was trying to save
> using a filename containing a colon. This is the first file I have tried
> to
> save so I assumed something was wrong with my install. I can't help
> feeling
> the error message was slightly misleading though.
>
> "User7684" wrote:
>
>> I have created a wordpad document but I cannot save it anywhere. The
>> first
>> place I tried was /user/Documents but it says 'You can't save in this
>> location. Please choose another location'. I tried saving in the root
>> directory, same message. I tried creating a new folder in Documents and
>> saving to that. Still refuses to save. This is incredibly annoying. This
>> program comes with Vista and yet it is unable to save the contents of a
>> file
>> even to my own documents. I tried OpenOffice and that came up with the
>> same
>> message. My Documents folder properties show it is 'read only'. I have
>> tried
>> unchecking this option but it keeps restoring it to read only. Can
>> someone
>> please tell me how to save a file under Windows Vista?