Get message "The lock file could not be created for exclusive access by Libre Office due to missing permission to create a lock file on that file location ..." . What is this about? It's been happening since Mac OS Catalina.

[Thorpie]

Mac OS Catalina and this issue happened about the same time. At first I just saved the read-only that opened, but now am having trouble with that.

[Thorpie]

Forgot to make clear that this happens when opening a textual attachment in email.

[gabix]

Read these guidelines and ask a good question. In particular, make the title short.

[anon73440385]

Forgot to make clear that this happens when opening a textual attachment in email.

And that’s the point - you don’t know where your email client cached that file to pass it over to LibreOffice and LibreOffice got no permission to create a lock file in the email client’s cache directory (=temporary directory). Just don’t double click email attachments to open (and, more worse, edit 'em), but store them to some known directory (e.g: /User/<yourusername>/Documents and open from that known place - and/or provide LibreOffice with Full Disk Access (this anyway doesn’t remove the risk of email client deleting the cached file, even if you have edited the attachment and spent some work into that).

[mgl]

Hello

Lock file has been discussed several times in this forum . Please search for “Lock file” and revert to us if you do not find a solution afterwards.

Kind regards, Michel