On 2016-08-16 at 11:48, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: > Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes: >> Note that LibreOffice *cannot* be open/running while exporting, or >> the conversion fails. > > So *that's* what's going on! I could never figure out why it failed > sometimes -- there was no pattern that I could see. Is it possible for > the export process to know that this is why it failed, and provide a > more specific error message?
I don't see a way to get the reason for the failure, but you could preempt the failure with a check. Advise the org ODT export function, and have it check for an active LibreOffice process, and then warn. -k.
