Well make this a second complaint. Your typeface is VERY small and a strain to read. Richard Travers, Truro
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]] >> 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 timeand >> everybody else's. >> Maurice D. Howe >> 616 Lacey Drive >> Endwell, NY 13760 >> 607-754-0469 >> [email protected] >> >> _____ >> >> From: Rod Lockwood [mailto:[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 whenclosing >> OpenOffice. Starting OpenOffice 3.41 does not trigger the filerestoration >> 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 bymy >> text editor and the way it was done in the old days. Simply save thefile >> 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 togo. >> At the most you lose your allotted time of work. And saving the file >> manually obviously didn't make a difference. So forget about anylectures >> 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. >>
