Read only error when saving in power point

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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!
 
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/
 
I have not. How would I do that?

David M. Marcovitz said:
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/
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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

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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/
 
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.
 
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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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?
 
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/
 
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