https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105493
Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |NOTABUG
--- Comment #2 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> ---
@gbwillett :
When you force quit LibreOffice or it crashes, sometimes the file ressources
are not completely de-allocated or at least not cleanly. LibreOffice holds a
lock on the file(s) that were open when the crash or force quit occurred. This
lock manifests itself as a hidden file, which is stored until LibreOffice is
started again. When the user attempts to re-open the file that they were
working on, it checks for the lock file and in theory, uses that to check for
consistency between the files. However, for some reasons I don't understand or
know the intricacies of, LibreOffice doesn't always get this right and then
throws a hissy fit that someone else has already opened the file (which is
generally untrue, unless you happen to be in a multi-user environment).
This is "normal" behaviour (I quote the word normal, because it can be argued
that from a user perspective LibreOffice should be intelligent enough to know
that the same user is attempting to open a given file).
So, currently this is not a bug. Go ahead and click on "Yes". When you do that,
the file lock will be overwritten with the new users credentials.
There nonetheless remains the possibility that you will lose data as the lock
file contains the state of the file at the moment the crash/force quit occurred
and overwriting the lock file with the new file handle credentials might clear
that data out, leaving you with less than what you expected. This is
particularly so for database files that have an embedded database (hsqldb).
For what it's worth, you should really move to a more recent version of
LibreOffice, LO4352 has been EOL (end of life) for a while now.
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