LibreOffice says permission was denied to open a file in a NTFS partition, even with it having permission

Bug #1750707 reported by Leonardo Müller
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libreoffice (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm trying to open a spreadsheet file located in a NTFS partition, but LibreOffice gives an error saying the permission is denied. I am sure I have permission to edit that file and that partition because I could edit it with Gedit (it does not show Read-Only on the bar) and I copied and created new files (not with LibreOffice) in the same directory the spreadsheet is.

The NTFS partition is mounted at boot time using the following on /etc/fstab (redacted):
UUID=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA /mnt/W10 ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names 0 0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libreoffice 1:5.4.4-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Feb 20 23:16:05 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-13 (252 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-10-20 (124 days ago)

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Leonardo Müller (leozinho29-eu) wrote :
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

@Simon: did you really mean to close that bug? Can you point to an upstream bug report / commit?

@Leonardo: is that bug resolved for you with the latest version of libreoffice in 18.04 (6.0.2-0ubuntu1)?

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Leonardo Müller (leozinho29-eu) wrote :

Yes, the bug was resolved to me. I reported it when LibreOffice was at version 5.4.4-0ubuntu5. When updated to 6.0, the bug no longer happened.

I've asked Simon to close this bug on IRC as LibreOffice was working correctly for some time and its status had never changed.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Thanks for the confirmation!

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