Comment 93 for bug 87101

experienced users(In reply to comment #71)

> No, it's not what I mean. OpenOffice prevents any action on the file marked
> "read only", for an inexperienced user it is very good(!), but what about the
> users aware that they working on file in the temporary folder?

experienced users rather figure out that they just have to use the "save as..." function an can edit the program like normal. or the would do this anyway before editing.

I think you could also do it like Outlook: Take the edited file back into the mail, but also keep the old version stored.