I agree with you Ian!
Cleaning out the cache ... re-booting ... ... ...
I think these are used to confound us ;-)
Without Tom, many of us could remain befuddled ;-)
so I hope, Tom, you continue to spread your helpful hints.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :)
> Lqtm :) Thanks :) Yes, it's a magic "waggle the wires" type of answer
> that a lot of much more knowledgeable people miss.
>
> On Ubuntu's Launchpad pseudo-forums for questions about sound issues i got
> used to asking the standard questions Mark Rijckenburg would usually ask,
> to save him the time. In the same 1st response i would casually mention it
> worth unplugging and re-plugging the little green plug and the speaker's
> power-supply and switch the speakers on again. Just doing that seemed to
> fix around 60%-80% of problems!
>
> As a menu item it would need to say something like "Reset LibreOffice
> back to factory defaults" but a few people might get an unexpectedly more
> pure set of defaults than they originally had because the version in their
> distro's repo or versions on unofficial sites or Cd/Dvds might have already
> been tweaked.
>
> Anyway, i'm glad the magic worked :)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> >
> > From: Ian Whitfield <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013, 7:32
> >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Thanks for the advice Tom!!!
> >
> >Hi Tom
> >
> >Just a "Shout Out" to you my friend!!
> >
> >I have noticed over the years that you are a regular informer to people
> having problems with LO (Me included!!) And that you frequently tell them
> to" Rename your Profile".
> >
> >Well this week I was doing some work on comparing two printouts from two
> different Databases looking for common names, duplicates and missing names.
> I had pulled both lists into Calc and was happily getting the job done when
> LO froze-up, started writing to the HDD for some time and then crashed.
> >
> >I said a few choice words and re-started - 10 mins later it happened
> again. I re-booted the whole system and tried again - same thing.
> >
> >I re-created the Calc file and tried again - same result!!
> >
> >By this time my choice words were getting VERY colourful!! I sat back and
> thought about the problem. Then I remembered your frequent advice to
> "Rename the Profile" so I gave it a go.
> >
> >MAGIC - all returned to its usual perfect condition and I have had no
> more problems.
> >
> >Thanks Tom for pushing the fix and to have kept reminding us of it. I
> almost feel that a "Rename Profile" option should be added to the Menu -
> what do you think!!??
> >
> >All the best and keep it up Tom
> >
> >IanW
> >Pretoria RSA
> >
>
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