To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=91660 Issue #|91660 Summary|Opening spreadsheets crashes openoffice Component|Spreadsheet Version|OOo 2.4.1 Platform|PC URL|N/A OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P1 Subcomponent|open-import Assigned to|spreadsheet Reported by|robertbradbury
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 15 08:00:41 +0000 2008 ------- I have dozens of spreadsheets which were written under Windows 2000 and MS Excel. The spreadsheets are highly "interconnected" in that they may reference specific sheets and cells in other files, or even reference "defined names" (which in turn reference specific sheets and cells within those sheets). If I attempt to load these sheets I will crash OpenOffice. This is highly annoying as it not only takes down any open OOCALC files but the OOWRITER files as well. The recovery option does not work as it will crash during recovery (perhaps one should not enter a file into the recovery list until it has been successfully opened?!?). I strongly suspect that the problem here may be in the conversion of Win2K filenames into valid Linux filenames. Windows (Excel) seemed to have a multi-level file location strategy that involved something like a full pathname, followed by the current directory, followed by the opening of a directory browser to allow the user to navigate to the current location for the file. That does not appear to be provided under OpenOffice. The attempts by OpenOffice to parse what are probably embedded "full" windows pathnames, e.g. U:\Users\bradbury\ExcelFiles\PhysProp.xls is probably what is generating the problem. I have files available which *will* reliably generate the bug (and abort all running soffice applications) but due to the fact that they contain somewhat proprietary information I would prefer to turn them over to the specific individual who will be fixing this problem rather than submit them to the issues database. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
