CPHennessy wrote: >On Thu March 2 2006 19:39, Andre Schnabel wrote: > > >>Hi Dale, >> >>Dale schrieb: >> >> >>>Hello >>> >>>I'm writing this message in frustration, after upgrading to OO 2.0.1 on >>>Ubuntu Linux 5.10, on a client of mine's system. I get regular calls >>>from them to assist when OO freezes their entire system. In particular, >>>it seems that if they 'paste' from within Calc onto the top-left grid >>>corner of an empty spreadsheet that things run amok and OO consumes >>>every last drop of their available 1GB of RAM. I may be wrong of course >>>and OO might be hogging the CPU? It's impossible to tell, as the system >>>becomes totally unusable and hence one can't view what's happening. >>> >>> >>what exactly are they doing? Means "paste on the to-left grid corner" >>that tey paste to Cell A1 or do they paste to paste to the colum / row >>header corner? >> >>If it is the second: this is not a memory leak, this is behaviour as >>designed. Because .. what they are doing is: >>- select all cells of a spreadsheet >>- past clipboard content to each single cell >> >>that means .. they would paste the content to 16777216 cells. >> >> > >Which for many users may not be obvious and not really useful ? > > > But they can and will do this. Maybe a warning message could be given. Something on like this: "You are about to do a very large cut and paste operation. This may take a very long time. Are you sure?" Then give the Ok/Cancel option.
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