Read only error when saving in power point

[Guest]

I have Power Point 2000 and am trying to save a presentation to disk or flash
drive. I get the following message: Cannot save 'D:\St. Paul Saint.ppt'. The
folder is marked as read only'. Does anyone have a solution for me? I have
tried re-saving with .ppt designation, I still get this message. I tried
changing the security on the file, but evidentally 2000 doesn't allow that
(or at least not that I could find). I appreciate any help I can get. Thank
you!

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Have you tried saving to your hard drive and dragging the file over to the
D:\ drive (with Windows, not PowerPoint)?
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Guest]

I have not. How would I do that?

Have you tried saving to your hard drive and dragging the file over to the
D:\ drive (with Windows, not PowerPoint)?
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

File > Save As and pick a location on your hard drive (if it's just for a
temporary purpose, the desktop would probably work--just don't let what
happened to me happen to you and let those "temporary files" build up
until you have 100 of them on your desktop. Next, close PowerPoint.
Then open My Computer and drag the file that you saved on your desktop to
your D:\ drive.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Guest]

It keeps saving as an image file. I cannot get it to save as a pp file.
Something is going really wrong here. I tried dragging it over to the D:/
drive, it says that this cd rom has been designated as a read only file. I
then used my removable flash drive and it saved it as an image file again.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

What kind of disk is your D drive? If it is a flash drive, have you checked
to see if it is write protected? Some of them have a little switch on the
side that write protects the device.

If it is a CD, you can't write directly to it from PPT 2000. You will need
to save it to your hard drive and then use your CD writing software.

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[Guest]

My D drive is a Sony rewritable CD burner. I also have a removable 2GB flash
drive. I do not see a switch on the side. When I try saving this file I am
noticing that it is always saving as an image file and will try to open with
imaging for Windows. It will not save as a powerpoint presentation. Do you
think my version of powerpoint is corrupt?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Have you ever saved anything to your CD drive? It seems that either your
CD drive is CD-ROM (which is read-only) and not CD-RW (which allows you
to write) or you don't have a writable disk in there.

I wonder if this file is password protected so that it is not allowing
you to save it as a PowerPoint file. What do you get when you choose Save
As from the File menu? Are there any choices for type of file?

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/