Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

The symptom that started this subthread was "There is an extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup copy" is checked. This bug both destroys data, and prevents the backup copy from being made." That seems to me to

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

users even before digging in research about this bug: 1) Write a simple Windows tool that will rename the default "user" folder to "user.20151231-123456" (or your favorite timestamp); this runs outside OpenOffice, it can be hosted somewhere on home.apache.org and it may become

Re: Broken Download Link

As an alternative you can use this link. It works for me: http://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openofficeorg.mirror/4.1.2/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe HTH Marcus Am 12/31/2015 02:23 AM, schrieb Charles Cox: Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64bit

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Am 12/31/2015 02:49 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Marcus wrote: Am 12/31/2015 11:34 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: If we are really, really sure that spellchecker failure and backup failure have the same underlying cause and fix it makes sense to combine them in a single Bugzilla entry ...

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Am 12/31/2015 12:11 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Are you sure "Spell checker does not work" is the most appropriate title for this problem? sure, but if you think of a better wording, please do not hestate to change it. Marcus On 12/30/2015 2:41 PM, Marcus wrote: Maybe you both

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Am 12/31/2015 11:34 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: The symptom that started this subthread was "There is an extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup copy" is checked. This bug both destroys data, and prevents the

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

rst, since it's easier and it is what users want. There are useful and very simple options for helping users even before digging in research about this bug: 1) Write a simple Windows tool that will rename the default "user" folder to "user.20151231-123456" (or your favorite

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Patricia Shanahan wrote: I don't think I have much to contribute to the profile corruption issue. Well, I can't believe it is very hard to write a Windows equivalent of $ mv ~/.openoffice/4/user ~/.openoffice/4/user.20153112-123456 and wrap it into a GUI Windows executable that adds a few

[CANCELLED] Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording

Due to discussion, these changes will not be made. On 12/23/2015 02:09 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > I'm looking at the latest version of the Third Party Licensing > Policy for the ASF at: > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > > Here it spells out which licenses are acceptable for use in ASF >

Re: Access to VMs for maintenance

On 15/12/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've requested full access to the project's virtual machines for maintenance (I already have extended privileges there, but not full access). There have been several improvements in the last couple weeks. In short: 1) The Wiki has been fully upgraded to

[Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed?

Hi, See: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50=64457=373998#p373998 Basically, we have spammer only in the Vietnamese forum. Since there is nobody to moderate, perhaps we should set all the sections as read-only until a new team volunteers? Note: since I'm admin, I can do

Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed?

Am 12/31/2015 07:36 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:26:53 +0100 Hagar Delest wrote: Hi, See: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50=64457=373998#p373998 Basically, we have spammer only in the Vietnamese forum. Since there is

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: >> Hi, >> >> let me say a few words on this too: >> >> I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never >> experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped >> me a

[Forum] Attachment quota increased

Hi, For the record, the quota for the forum attachments has been raised from 800MiB to 1,600MiB. This was needed after the limit was reached and users complained. As a reminder, the attachment size is limited to 128KiB (3 per post). The intent of such a low limit is to avoid wasting disk size

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped me a few times to retrieve a document I've had a problem with (such as

Re: Access to VMs for maintenance

Am 12/31/2015 06:12 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 15/12/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've requested full access to the project's virtual machines for maintenance (I already have extended privileges there, but not full access). There have been several improvements in the last couple weeks. In

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Hi, I step in this interesting thread, for my 2 cents opinion. First I've never heard of an "extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup copy" is checked." Even if I spend much less time on the forum for some

Re: Re: [Forum] Attachment quota increased

Forum already back. Hagar Le 31/12/2015 18:40, Hagar Delest a écrit : I was just replying your post about landing page! I think that my post is lost but at least there is no panic. Hagar Le 31/12/2015 18:32, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Hagar Delest wrote: For the record, the quota for the

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped me a few times to retrieve a document I've had a problem with (such as losing it for some reason or other. I think

RE: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

+1 on separating the issues. While the profile corruption can be tied to recovery failures and being trapped in a recovery loop, there is a quite separate matter on corruption/loss of the presumably-recoverable material itself, whether a final Save operation or some auto-save complication.

Re: Basic editor and key-words

>There is a difference between reserved words and (predefined) function >names. This belongs to ALL programming languages. >LBound and UBound are not reserved words. OK the goal is to help programmers So we can have a different color for predefined functions?

Re: [Forum] Attachment quota increased

Hagar Delest wrote: For the record, the quota for the forum attachments has been raised from 800MiB to 1,600MiB. ... Not sure it has an impact on the administration of the servers but perhaps someone needs to know. Thanks! It fits well with the ongoing little fixes, and I confirm there are

Re: [Forum] Attachment quota increased

I was just replying your post about landing page! I think that my post is lost but at least there is no panic. Hagar Le 31/12/2015 18:32, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Hagar Delest wrote: For the record, the quota for the forum attachments has been raised from 800MiB to 1,600MiB. ... Not sure it

Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed?

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:26:53 +0100 Hagar Delest wrote: > Hi, > > See: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50=64457=373998#p373998 > > Basically, we have spammer only in the Vietnamese forum. Since there is > nobody to moderate, perhaps we should

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/12/2015 19:49, Andreas Säger wrote: > When you save another version in foreign file format, the current document should remain the ODF source. That part is a good idea. > Foreign files should be loaded read-only and saved as ODF before editi

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

On 12/31/2015 11:49 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the

RE: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed?

+1 > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:09 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed? > > Am 12/31/2015 07:36 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > > On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:26:53 +0100

Reporting broken download link

Hello, suddenly since yesterday, I cannot open all my file written with open office writer apache I have tried to re install apache but it was unsuccessful. Thank you for your help Happy new Year Dominique Olgiati switzerland

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

On 12/31/2015 9:24 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: I don't think I have much to contribute to the profile corruption issue. Well, I can't believe it is very hard to write a Windows equivalent of $ mv ~/.openoffice/4/user ~/.openoffice/4/user.20153112-123456 and wrap it

RE: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

+1 > -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 13:05 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document > with no auto backup copy. > [ ... ] > As an AOO user, I would sadly miss

Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed?

+1 Am 31.12.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > +1 > >> -Original Message- >> From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] >> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:09 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed? >>

Re: Reporting broken download link

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 21:30:08 +0100 Dominique Olgiati wrote: > Hello, > suddenly since yesterday, I cannot open all my file written with open > office writer apache > I have tried to re install apache but it was unsuccessful. > Thank you for your help > Happy new Year >