I am using an HP Pavilion G6 laptop. It came with Windows 7 and I installed LibreOffice. I downloaded several forms and documents, filled them in and periodically altered/updated them as needed. All worked well and I kept them stored on a memory stick.

 Then I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon. At first I could not get my Brother DCP-T300 printer to work but after downloading drivers from internet I got it and the scanner.

The problem is, when I now call up documents from the memory stick and try to alter text, I get "Write protected cannot alter". Forbye, If I scan or download a document into the computer, it saves as a PDF, again unable to alter.

What have done wrong and how can I correct it? I want to keep documents, especially forms in storage and update them as needed.

1 hour ago, Maybole said:

Write protected cannot alter

You may need to change the file permission.

 

https://phoenixnap.com/kb/linux-file-permissions

 

 

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/vps/change-linux-permissions-and-owners