Using: Ubuntu 12.04.1; LibreOffice 3.6 On my system, which is a dual boot with Windows, I have a lot of documents already on NTFS drives (I also have LibreOffice 3.6 installed on Windows).
When I start Writer (in Ubuntu), and choose File|Open, I am able to see and select files on the NTFS drives, but when I select one to open, Writer simply disappears. I am assuming that this is because the particular NTFS drive is not mounted in Ubuntu yet, although it shows up in Writer as well as Nautilus. If I do this a second time, it works fine and the file is loaded. At this point, Nautilus shows the symbol next to the drive indicating that it has been mounted. If Writer can see the file, it seems like it should mount the drive without any overt intervention on my part. It almost seems as if it does actually try to do this, but there might be some timing issue involved (i.e. it doesn't wait long enough for the drive to be mounted before silently departing). Is this ... a bug? ... a configuration setting I haven't discovered? Does anyone know what to do about this annoyance? Additionally, I tried (after unmounting the drive) choosing the document from the "recently opened" list, and it says the file doesn't exist, although Writer doesn't disappear in this circumstance. After the drive is mounted, of course, other recent files load as expected. Once again, it would seem that, if Writer knows where the file is located, it should attempt to mount the drive - at least if it knows it's a local drive on the same machine. One other observation that I'm not certain of: I had originally installed Ubuntu with wubi to try it out, and I don't believe there was any problem with automatically mounting and opening anything I picked in Writer, but I can't swear to that (since everything "worked" I didn't pay much attention). Under wubi, I believe I was using the "stock" Libre 3.5.x though, so this might indicate something. As indicated above, I'm not familiar enough with Ubuntu or LibreOffice to know if I should submit this as an "enhancement request" or a "bug" and would appreciate any comments. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Opening-Files-in-Writer-tp4006889.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
