How can I get the permissions to write to the external SD card ...?

[Peter Gamma]

Thanks walter1950 for sharing this

- The fact that LibreOffice is highly costumizable for instance for the Pinephone:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...614&page=5

- has encouraged me to make another tests. Who wants to be debugger of an app like Abiword, an app for which developement has basically stopped then years ago?

- So I still have LibreOffice to test if Abiword fails and can avoid going completely crazy looking for a wordprocessor for the Pinephone which works for my use case if Abiword should not work.

- Wordprocessor, text editor, I am not an expert in this field, and I do not know the exact definitions of these terms. So let's stick with Abiword and LibreOffice Writer.

- I did another test and created with Abiword a file and save it in the .odt format on an Ubuntu PC

- This is also the format in wich LibreOffice saves files.

- I created another file with LibreOffice Writer in the .odt format on my Ubuntu PC.

- I stored both of these files to an SD card.

- Then I was able to open the file I have created with Abiword in the .odt format on my Pinephone with Abiwrod and had not the issues I described above.

- Also the LibreOffice Writer file I created on my Ubuntu PC which i stored on an SD card and opened it with LibreOffice Writer on my Pinephone was perfect.

- But I think it needs further testing especially the issues I experienced with Abiword files I created on the Pinephone, then edited on my Ubuntu PC, which had issues when I opened those files again on the Pinephone.

- it remains to be seen if the issues I described above can be solved by choosing the .odt formatl

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Mobian Trixie (UpToDate)

Ok, I have einstalled ABIWORD on Pinephone, wrote some Letters and saved it to SD-Card.

The SD-Card inserted in PC (Ubuntu 20.04) and doubleclicked this *.abw-File from SD-Card.
"LibreOffice Writer" opens the File and I wrote some more Text there.
LibreOffice is saving this *abw-File to *.odt. There are no "Export-Function" to save/convert it as *.abw.

SD-Card back to Phinephone and Abiword opens the *.odt-File nicely.

What I have written, with LibreOfice to this File, is still there.

BTW:
LibreOffice is the Way to go :-)

HTH
Ciao
Walter

- I am revisting a problem which I tried to solve last year.

- Thanks for the answer, Walter1950, your procedure sounds very interesting.

- I only saw it now and are looking more closely at it.

- I have put my Pinephone on the screed last year when I had no time to look at this problem more closely.

- Now when I started my Pinephone I did not remember my password for postmarketOS

- So I have to admit I have not tested  Walter1950 s solution to this date.

- But I will do it as soon as I am able to login to my Pinephone again.

- So the following is a more theoretical solution I thought about.

- And I ask the question in another tread.

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19297