Trouble trying to edit a PP2 file

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Okay, I just tried to alter a messed up file path in a PP2 file via Notepade++ and it would not let me alter the line at all.  I got down to the line that had the wrong path in it, went to delete and rework the line, looked up and realised nothing at all had changed.  It wasn't taking any of my keypresses other than to move the cursor around or to hightlight something.  After banging my head against this one for a few moments, I decided to try editting it in LibreOffice instead, after having renamed a copy of the PP2 file to now have .DOC appended to the end.  It then notified me the document was in read-only mode.  What the...?!?  It had an Edit Document button, though, and once I clicked that, LibreOffice went through some bit of time where it seemed to be reloading the document again one line at a time, then I was able to get down to the line I needed to change, and went to save the document out.... and it presented me with a completely different folder on the same drive, where I'd been editting an unrelated text file some weeks ago, wanting to save the document THERE.  And when I then told it to save, it told me it couldn't save it in the format it originated in and wanted to save it in its own format.  This is a pure text file, why is it trying to save it in a different format?!?

So, two unrelated questions:  

Why would a PP2 file be treated as read-only mode?  (The drive and the folder are not read-only, and I can readily copy files around in that folder and rename them.)

Why does LibreOffice sometimes want to save a document out to the folder I previously loaded and saved something from on an unrelated session, other than the folder I opened the current file in this time?  This is exasperating.  I wind up having to manually move the dadgum file from the other folder into the one its meant to be in.  oO

SixDs

Is the original .pp2 file one that you created, or one that you got elsewhere? If the latter, then I suspect that it came as a read-only file, and that setting will remain until you manually change it. I suspect that the LibreOffice behaviour is due to the fact that the original file was read-only, and when it came time to save, LibreOffice recognized that it could not overwrite a read-only file and defaulted to saving a new copy in a different location.

Richard Haseltine

Also make sure the file isn't open in another application - if it is, the second may well refuse to save to it.

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The PP2 file was in an archive I received from ShareCG.... so, no, it didn't originate from me.  On the other hand, the matter is sort of moot, since it seems the graphical file it was looking for isn't even in the archive.   It was one of those things where the required file was located somewhere outside of Poser or Daz Studio's dirs and the merchant didn't catch the mistake.  I got decoyed into thinking another file with the same name was the one it was looking for, but that one didn't work, and anyway had a completely different extension, but I didn't find OUT it was the wrong graphical file until I finally went and dug the zip file back out, opened it, and found that it entirely LACKED the dir that had the graphical image in it.  HAH!

It was some silly clown coin, and its probably pretty simply for one to just slap a gold or silver shader on it.  I was mainly using the prop because I wanted to have a bunch of different, assorted, diverse coins piled together into a change-tray.

As for LibreOffice, it seems to have an annoying quirk where if you try to save something such that it has converted it into another text format, it sometimes tries to save that file to whatever directory you were previously working on some other thing in.  BAH!  Makes me want to throw things, specially when you don't NOTICE it saved it somewhere else, and you try to use the file you THINK you just editted, and then wonder why nothing changed.  0o