Hello all..

I'm having problems with my odt files becomming corrupted in OO2.0 beta after I save them to my USB drive.

Here's the deal. I'm an adjuct faculty member at Dixie State College and I'm testing out Linux/Open Office to see if it's somthing the school would be intrested in offering a course in. I don't want to install Linux onto a hard drive (as I dont' have admin privilages and it's a hassle to get such things done) so I'm using Knoppix 3.9 Live CD to preform all the work. The disk works great and I've been very happy with the whole experiance until I go to open my saved files.

I'm following the Word book so I have an outline of what I want Open Office to do, so all the files I'm opening are the .doc files that come with the workbook. I open the flies, make my changes I need, then save to .odt format on my USB Flash disk. But when I go to reopen the odt files they are corrupted and freeze up open office. This does not happen with every file, but it does seem to be the majority of them.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be causing this? I'm using a P4 1.7 GHZ machine with 256 Meg of Ram. The Flash Drive is a Memorex 256 meg drive and the only things on it are a Knoppix config file, the school work files I"m using, a "findings" write up I'm keeping for each tutorial I work through (those have also become corrupted), and a few issues of Tux Magazine in PDF format.

Any help and ideas would be appricited.

Thanks

barronmore