Hi Marcus, Rory,

Pull Request opened:

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pull/161

Regards,

   Matthias

Am 20.11.22 um 20:23 schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:48:48 +0100
> Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 19.11.22 um 11:32 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
>>> Am 18.11.22 um 10:25 schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
>>>> There have been many reports of OpenOffice files Writer and Impress (not 
>>>> sure about Calc), of all versions, suddenly losing pictures, and leaving 
>>>> only a blank frame.
>>>>
>>>> I use the Xubuntu LTS versions, running usually the latest Apache 
>>>> OpenOffice, more recently the 4.5.0 nightlies.  I have not used Windows 
>>>> since 2007/8, so cannot say if the following remarks have relevance to 
>>>> that version
>>>>
>>>> LibreOffice have fixed the problem of picture loss, at a cost (from 
>>>> memory) of 44,000 euro.
>>>>
>>>> I regularly make and re-edit Impress presentations, some of considerable 
>>>> size (~100+ slides, for later selection) and some of 10/12 years of age, 
>>>> and have found a method that seems to overcome the picture loss.
>>>>
>>>> My files are stored on a network addressed storage; I have disabled "Save 
>>>> Autorecovery every n seconds" (entering 0); in more than 9 years of using 
>>>> that setting in OpenOffice, both in the creation and editing of large 
>>>> Impress presentations of 100+ slides containing images and also of several 
>>>> illustrated booklets, I have never lost pictures.  Prior to disabling the 
>>>> AutoRecovery process, I regularly did lose images.
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that the AutoRecovery process, when it happens, does not 
>>>> correctly preserve the existing OpenOffice environment, perhaps itself 
>>>> being interrupted by input keystrokes from the User.
>>>>
>>>> I do not offer this as a sure-fire solution, but merely record my 
>>>> experience
>>> Thank you for sharing your experience!
>>>
>>> A memory corruption may be the main problem, but pictures nowadays are
>>> typically much bigger than they were, when OO was designed.
>>>
>>> That said, I would like to increase the memory settings at least for
>>> trunk/AOO42X.
>>>
>>> Default is now:
>>>
>>> Graphics cache:  20 MB, 5.2 MB per object, Remove after 10 minutes.  20
>>> Objects
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>> just in crease the settings. What about 100 MB and 10 MB for each object?
>>
>> Marcus
> Sounds good.
>
>

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