Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem importing xls files
My results are identical to Don Pobanz'--also LO 4.3.2.2 and Xubuntu 14.04. On 10/14/2014 01:04 PM, Don Pobanz wrote: On 10/14/2014 02:45 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: El 14/10/14 a las 16:41, Tom Davies escibió: Hi :) Weird! Both open fine in LibreOffice 3.5.7 on Ubuntu 12.04 (at least i think i'm on 12.04, might be 14.04 but that's doubtful) Errr, anyone able to open on Windows? Regards from Tom :) I'm using 4.2.6.3 on Ubuntu 14.04. For some reason bad.xls opens with Writer, not Calc, even when I say 'open with Calc.' Good.xls opens just fine. Libreoffice 4.3.2.2 Ubuntu 14.04 -- /Not/ sent from my iPhone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.5.40 now available
Thanks Tom, I've just installed this from the Ubuntu Trusty repositories. Looking forward to attempting to figure it out(!). Cheers, mike On 10/10/2014 04:36 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) For anyone using or interested in using Base ... MariaDb is a drop in replacement for MySql. It forked off from MySql in much the same way as LibreOffice did from OpenOffice. It's got most of the original MySql community and devs. On the other hand many web-hosting companies are still using Oracle's MySql. Plus the Postgresql people joined in with developing a native connector for Base so Postgresql might be an easier choice for people starting from scratch. Back to the first hand, MariaDb is replacing MySql as the native database program in many linux distros. I know it's in Slackware but haven't confirmed for the others yet. So web-hosting companies might already be using MariaDb and just calling it MySql in their marketing. Regards from Tom :) On 9 October 2014 20:03, MariaDB Announce List annou...@mariadb.org wrote: The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.40 This is a Stable (GA) release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for details. - - Links - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MariaDB 5.5.40 - Release Notes: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-5540-release-notes - Changelog: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-5540-changelog - Downloads: https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.40 About MariaDB 5.5: - https://mariadb.com/kb/en/what-is-mariadb-55/ APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator: - https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/ - - MariaDB Webinars - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There are several upcoming MariaDB-focused webinars and many previously held ones available to watch on an on-demand basis at: - https://mariadb.com/news-events/webinars - - MariaDB Books - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There is an ever-growing library of MariaDB books available to help you get the most out of MariaDB. See the MariaDB Books page for details and links: - https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/books/ - - User Feedback plugin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add feedback=ON to your my.cnf or my.ini file! See http://mariadb.com/kb/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. - - Quality - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: - http://mariadb.org/jira - - Support MariaDB - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you would like to contribute to the MariaDB Foundation, please see the contributing and donations pages. We also have merchandise available in a cafepress store. All proceeds go to support the MariaDB Foundation. - https://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing - https://mariadb.org/en/donate/ - http://www.cafepress.com/mariadb We hope you enjoy MariaDB! -- MariaDB Website - http://mariadb.org Twitter - http://twitter.com/mariadb Google+ - http://google.com/+mariadb Facebook - http://fb.com/MariaDB.dbms Knowledge Base - http://mariadb.com/kb ___ announce mailing list annou...@mariadb.org https://lists.askmonty.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce To unsubscribe, send an email with unsubscribe as the Subject: to announce-requ...@mariadb.org -- /Not/ sent from my iphone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?
Thanks Tom, I think your post states the case very well. Without a Windows machine I suspect this nut is practically impossible to crack. The potential client may have Access and, if so, be willing to export his tables (as text files or whatever)--if so, I should be able to rebuild his bases in Base. I don't like MS and won't use their products again, but feel I must say I made a good living using Access for years and really appreciated the program--just not the nightmare world of strings attached. I'm really glad to have Base to replace it. Thanks for your time and attention. mike On 10/08/2014 03:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help. Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so well. They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to' keep buying into their products. Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily. They also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe and reliable and don't perform so well either. So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people just quickly trying out alternatives. They can't seem to compete on quality or in fair markets However people have been able to migrate their databases out of Access and into Base. Regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 10:48, Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 07/10/2014 20:46, m. nease a écrit : I'd like to do some work on Access databases (.accdb files) but haven't been able to access(!) them using Base (and have no MS OS or MS Office--happily). Is this possible? To assist in migration, also check out this Windows-only, GPL tool : http://mdbdoc.sourceforge.net/ Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- /Not/ sent from my iphone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?
Hi Dan, I installed the Access2Base extension and tried it but to no avail. Possibly your Access database was an .mdb rather than an .accdb? Thanks for your time and attention. mike On 10/08/2014 07:09 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: There is an extension that should help you. Download it from the LibreOffice Extensions website: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/access2base About a year ago or so, I downloaded an earlier version and was able to access a Access database with it. Dan On 10/08/2014 06:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help. Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so well. They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to' keep buying into their products. Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily. They also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe and reliable and don't perform so well either. So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people just quickly trying out alternatives. They can't seem to compete on quality or in fair markets However people have been able to migrate their databases out of Access and into Base. Regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 10:48, Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 07/10/2014 20:46, m. nease a écrit : I'd like to do some work on Access databases (.accdb files) but haven't been able to access(!) them using Base (and have no MS OS or MS Office--happily). Is this possible? To assist in migration, also check out this Windows-only, GPL tool : http://mdbdoc.sourceforge.net/ Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- /Not/ sent from my iphone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?
Thanks, Jaroslaw, Your ideal solution is a bit over my head at this time, but I do appreciate it and will hang onto it for future reference. Thanks again for your time and attention. mike On 10/08/2014 07:21 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: On 8 October 2014 12:08, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help. Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so well. They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to' keep buying into their products. Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily. They also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe and reliable and don't perform so well either. So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people just quickly trying out alternatives. They can't seem to compete on quality or in fair markets +1 BTW, This is also why Kexi does not use Windows-only ADO, which (as many believe) would be another variant of the lock-in. mdbtools is used exclusively, under the mask. Ideal solution would be to start and maintain a port of Jackcess to C/C++ to avoid Java, even greater if this was independent project, not a part of LO or Kexi. -- /Not/ sent from my iphone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?
Thanks Tom (and everyone), I'll keep that in mind for future replies. Meanwhile, I think I've had enough advice for now and should perhaps mark the thread 'solved' (can someone advise me how to do that)? To sum up, I'm convinced at this point that working a MS database from Base just isn't practical and that the data need to be exported from the Access db on a Windows machine with Access installed. I had a brilliant suggestion off-line: try the library? Of course. My local library does have MS Office and I should be able to do anything I want with the thing there, including exporting the data for entry at home into a Base db. Duh! (Thanks, Brian!) Thanks again to everyone for your time and attention. mike On 10/08/2014 12:31 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) You can include comments to various different people in a single email. I like the DistroWatch method of saying something to the whole mailing-list in general and then various paragraphs such as @ Tom, Alex, Werner, Peter, Janoslaw, Dan, etc. Thanks! :) @ Dan. ... @ Peter. Not had chance to try that yet but thanks. So far just dodging Windows entirely! @ whoever I think Peter is onto a winner because he's actually done it the most recently out of all of us. I haven't managed it at all yet (except by convincing my boss that we really don't need the crumbling old database at all nowadays anyway and moved to just a VERY simple csv file instead of having any database) I think Jaroslaw wasn't a specific suggestion for this particular case but more an idea for the whole of LibreOffice to consider for the future. Really would be better to mention it on the Discuss mailing list except that it's probably difficult to talk about Base there. Bringing it up here means he does actually reach people interested in and knowledgeable about Base. We often go off-track on this list and that often helps the person deal with other stuff or work-out a better work-around. Regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 19:29, m. nease mlne...@hctc.com wrote: Thanks, Jaroslaw, Your ideal solution is a bit over my head at this time, but I do appreciate it and will hang onto it for future reference. Thanks again for your time and attention. mike On 10/08/2014 07:21 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: On 8 October 2014 12:08, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help. Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so well. They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to' keep buying into their products. Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily. They also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe and reliable and don't perform so well either. So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people just quickly trying out alternatives. They can't seem to compete on quality or in fair markets +1 BTW, This is also why Kexi does not use Windows-only ADO, which (as many believe) would be another variant of the lock-in. mdbtools is used exclusively, under the mask. Ideal solution would be to start and maintain a port of Jackcess to C/C++ to avoid Java, even greater if this was independent project, not a part of LO or Kexi. -- *Not* sent from my iphone. -- /Not/ sent from my iphone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
