Rod, I'm afraid I can't help you but just want to say for the record that the same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I have given up trying to recover the files that were open at the time of the crash. Oh, and I don't see anything wrong with your fonts - your original message was easy for me to read. I hope this gets solved -- I also prefer the old system, with the automatic .bak save.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Rod Lockwood <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > It is worse than I suspected. There was no error saving or closing the > files. OpenOffice is crashing while attempting to open the ODT files. Then > is unable to recover them. I tried to open two other files in the same > directory all with the same results. I have a screenshot, if you would like > me to send it. > > Maurice, I have no idea what you are referring to. This is the same font > size I have always used which is set to ‘Normal’. I can read it fine > without my glasses, nor is it overly large. You are the first person that > has complained. > > -- > Sincerely, > Rod Lockwood > > > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:02:10 -0400, Maurice Howe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Good. Now that 'incubator' has re-sent your note, we can all read it. > > > > Maurice > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Maurice Howe [mailto:[email protected]] <[email protected]]> > > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 6:48 PM > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: OpenOffice unable to restore file or open it > > > > Good grief! Don't use 4 point type for ANYthing!! You waste your time > > and > > everybody else's. > >Maurice D. Howe > > 616 Lacey Drive > > Endwell, NY 13760 > > 607-754-0469 > > [email protected] > > > > _____ > > > > From: Rod Lockwood > > [mailto:[email protected]]<[email protected]]> > > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 6:22 PM > > To: OpenOffice Users Mailing List > > Subject: OpenOffice unable to restore file or open it > > > > > > I have a text document that apparently did not close properly when > > closing > > OpenOffice. Starting OpenOffice 3.41 does not trigger the file > > restoration > > process. When I click on the file to open it, OpenOffice crashes because > > there is already a shadow file in existance. It begins the file > > restoration, > > but does not recover the shadow file. So I wind up not being able to do > > anything. Deleting the shadow file does not work. OpenOffice cannot open > > the > > document, even though it creates a new shadow document. > > > > This is why I never liked this system. I much prefer the system used by > > my > > text editor and the way it was done in the old days. Simply save the > > file to > > disc as a normal file with a .BAK extension every 15 minutes (or whatever > > your preference is). That way if the original file is corrupt, you simply > > delete the corrupt file, rename the backed up file and you are good to > > go. > > At the most you lose your allotted time of work. And saving the file > > manually obviously didn't make a difference. So forget about any > > lectures on > > how I should manually save my work periodically. > > > > It does not interfere with the undo process. It does not create multiple > > files, just the one back up file. A simple text editor is able to do > > this. I > > have never lost a file using this old-fashioned system of automatically > > backing up the file. Now I will have to recreate this file from scratch > > and > > from memory. > > > > > > -- Helen Etters using Linux, suse11.4
