I doubt there is a link with the profile since the file strucutre seems to be
wrecked.
Rod is not alone, we have several topics about similar cases. Especially the one
with the hashes (but slightly different, this last one dealing with power shortage
in most cases): http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17677
I honestly think that the save process in AOO is not robust enough for an
application that important for users (risk of data loss). I agree that there is
no application that don't have bugs but the process of saving a file safely is
not that complicated and it had never be a problem with older 2.x versions.
I've never faced myself such bug (on Ubuntu, XP, W2k and Vista with relative
intensive use) but of course the backup copy option is activated and I make
backups. It may be linked to some corner cases...
Hagar
Le 04/09/2012 03:00, Ariel Constenla-Haile a écrit :
Hi Rod,
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:22:08PM -0400, Rod Lockwood wrote:
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.
This might be a known issue:
http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues
Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 manage the user profile differently
than previous versions. The old user profile is automatically converted
so that users can keep their extensions and settings. In a minority of
cases, especially with highly customized profiles (many extensions or
customizations) the conversion doesn't succeed, Common symptoms are.
frequent application crashes, problems with dictionaries or thesaurus,
OpenOffice starting and crashing after a few seconds. To solve this,
just reset/rename your user profile as explained in the official
OpenOffice forum.
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12426
Regards
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