Paste special link in Calc - err:504

When I try to do a paste special > Paste special > link in Calc from one workbook to another, I just get an err:504 but cannot find a fix or an explanation of the reason for this.
I have checked the boxes for text, numbers, date & time and Link, but I am still getting the err:504. I have also cleared my clipboard.

Windows 10 and LibreOffice Version: 6.4.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: b0a288ab3d2d4774cb44b62f04d5d28733ac6df8
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: default; VCL: win;
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/scalc/05/02140000.html

That is no help to me because I have tried all kinds of combinations in the Paste Special> Paste Special list of options and none of them worked. It did work when I originally installed an earlier version of LibreOffice, but not with this version.

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What file format do you use?

I have checked the boxes for text, numbers, date & time and Link, but I am still getting the err:504

Where? In the originating file or the file where you pasted in the linked data? Using Paste Special -> Option: [x] Link creates a link to the original data (see also Edit -> Link to External Files...) and if you see an error 504 then the error is on the original file already.

I am getting the error in the worksheet where I tried to paste in the linked data. I don’t understand the point about the error being in the original worksheet. All I have there are numbers added together, for example, the original sheet shows a cell with =10397-10000+77+.... and the total shown in the cell is 4582. Can you spot an error? I copied the cell in the original went to the cell in the file where I want to link the data, and selected paste special>paste special> and made sure that the following boxes were checked: text, numbers, date & time and Link and get only the err

What file format do you use? I am using the file format .ods

I don’t understand the point about the error being in the original worksheet.

You told that you have option [x] Link in Paste Special. And this means: You create a Link (as per your will) to the original file. And if the original file has an 504 somewhere in the range you pasted using [x] Link, then you get the error inherited from the original file (And that’s why i pointed (see also `Edit → Link to External Files…´)

And I did not mean, where you checked the error to appear, but where you checked …boxes for text, numbers, date & time and Link

First I want to apologize for providing incorrect data, and to thank you for your help. I have vision problems The correct error message was Err:540, not 504, and when I restarted my computer, opened the files and clicked to automatically update the external links, I was able to use the paste link function. Because of my impaired vision, sometimes I do not see all the information on the screen and the notification message that I need to update the links is kind of squeezed. It would be nice if that were changed to a popup box, but that is another issue. I am going to put in an answer but I am not certain it is correct.

was Err:540, not 504,

This would have made it clear from the very beginning.

From what I have been able to determine, this problem was caused by a failure on my part to timely update the links when starting the program. The error code should have been Err:540, not Err:504 as I originally posted. At least one reason why the Paste SpeciaL>Paste Special>Link stopped working was that I did not notice that I needed to update the links when I got the warning message. Once I restarted the program and original file and clicked to update the links I was able to see my data instead of the error message. I want to thank your team for all the help.