[gentoo-user] oocalc document always needs recovery when opened

[Alan McKinnon]

Hi,

I have an OpenOffice spreadsheet that every single time I open it I get a 
recovery dialog that I have to confirm. The recovery always fails, the 
document then always opens correctly with no missing data. It was created 
with ooo-3 and so far has always been opened with ooo-3.

The dialog gives no indication what went wrong, and when opened from a shell, 
there's no console output. I don't know enough about OpenOffice to know where 
to start debugging.

Anyone have some pointers? A nice howto perhaps?

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] oocalc document always needs recovery when opened

[Mark David Dumlao]

A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and
openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how
openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd like to
preserve your settings maybe you could look into the subfolders there
and see if the backuped/cached document is there somewhere.

Re: [gentoo-user] oocalc document always needs recovery when opened

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 00:20:51 Mark David Dumlao wrote:
 A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and
 openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how
 openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd like to
 preserve your settings maybe you could look into the subfolders there
 and see if the backuped/cached document is there somewhere.

That did indeed make the problem go away. I considered comparing the old and 
new directories to find the incorrect setting, but decided not to - there was 
nothing special configured there that I can't easily redo.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] oocalc document always needs recovery when opened

[Eric Martin]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
 On Wednesday 24 December 2008 00:20:51 Mark David Dumlao wrote:
   
 A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and
 openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how
 openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd like to
 preserve your settings maybe you could look into the subfolders there
 and see if the backuped/cached document is there somewhere.
 

 That did indeed make the problem go away. I considered comparing the old and 
 new directories to find the incorrect setting, but decided not to - there was 
 nothing special configured there that I can't easily redo.

   
I too have had that problem and decided to look for the issue. 
Unfortunately I haven't found anything.  When  I get back home I might
try to figure this out...



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