https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108572
Bug ID: 108572
Summary: Mail merge: embedded database isn't properly discarded
when working with MS Office starting documents
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.4.0.0.beta2
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: ba...@caesar.elte.hu
Created attachment 134067
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Sample starting document (DOCX)
Attaching an overly simplistic sample mail merge starting document (DOCX) and
address list (ODS, but format doesn't matter), but the behavior is independent
of the content.
- Open the starting document (DOCX).
- Start mail merge wizard.
- Jump to step 3. Insert address block, open Select Address List... and after
clicking Add..., select the address list spreadsheet. Click OK in the dialog.
- Cancel mail merge wizard, and close Writer without saving anything.
- Restart LibreOffice, and check databases in Tools -> Options...; LibreOffice
Base -> Databases.
=> There is a database with the address list spreadsheet file name ("data
source" in the sample), and something like this for database file:
"vnd.sun.star.pkg://file:%2F%2F%2FD:%2Fbug%2Fmm%20document.docx/EmbeddedDatabase"
Note that no such entry remains if the starting document is an ODT.
While nothing was saved in this case, the same thing happens if the document is
saved as DOCX/DOC, as embedded database doesn't get saved in MS Office formats,
yet the database remains in the list afterwards.
It would be great if defunct embedded database entries were removed on start in
general (a crash with the file open could leave one even in case of ODTs).
Observed using LO 5.4beta2 / Windows 7.
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