Hi :) Errr, is it possible to switch the auto-save and auto-backups off for a while and see if that improves things? The thing i find difficult about doing that is remembering to save properly and frequently enough. With Base i think it's also important to close properly.
There is some documentation and a handbook at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications and the Faq at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq might be able to help too but the best place seems to be this mailing list or the Base forums at Apache OpenOffice. Regards from Tom :) On 15 January 2014 07:30, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Errr, are you using the internal back-end? You haven't connected to > an external back-end have you? You should really be keeping your data > in an external back-end instead of having the whole database as a > single file. > > Being able to do that is one of the main things that makes Base so > much more powerful than Access. The internal back-end got tacked on > to make Base more familiar to people who have picked up bad habits by > using Access. It seems to be a bit broken though. Annoyingly the > Marketing Mailing List and all our flyers, posters and leaflets (at > least all the ones that mention Base at all) keep pushing people into > using the internal back-end despite the fact that users have even > experienced data-loss by doing so. I'm tempted to ask you to take > this problem to the marketing list to get them to solve it but the > experts in Base are mostly on this list and will hopefully be able to > help with this issue. > > It should be possible to export your existing tables into an external > back-end and this mailing list (note, not the marketing list) might be > able to help you with that. > > The next smart thing about Base is that forms and reports can be, and > are best made in Writer or/and (i think) Calc. So normal users who > are clueless about databases can read the data in a familiar setting > and use familiar tools to format and edit things around the > data-fields. The forms and reports inside Base seem to be for > data-entry and people who have some clue about databases. > > However i have never quite got around to getting to grips with all > this. So hopefully some of the experts might wade in and set me > straight (again) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 15 January 2014 05:57, Vince Radice <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am running Fedora FC19-64 bit. Libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 >> Build ID: 4.1.4.2-2.fc19 >> >> Here are some lines of a ls -la command >> >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 13:10 GRNew odb_0.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1000.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1001.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1002.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1003.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1004.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1005.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1006.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1007.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1008.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1009.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 13:26 GRNew odb_100.odb >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1010.odb >> >> My database name is GRNew,odb. >> I was looking at some of the recent messages that were talking about LO >> looping saving backups of untitled documents. It mentioned Calc and Write >> as being involved. Could this be related to my problem? >> >> Thanks, >> Vince Radice >> >> >> On 01/14/2014 12:44 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >>> >>> Hi :) >>> On Ubuntu 12.04 i have no files in there. Do the file-names start >>> with a ~ or with "lock"? In either of those cases i think you can >>> delete the files without worry but it might be worth testing that for >>> 1 or 2 files. >>> >>> Going off on a tangent i do have a non-LibreOffice folder with a load >>> of crash reports from when i don't close Xbmc properly and i routinely >>> delete all of them from time-to-time. I'm not sure if this is similar >>> or not. >>> Regards from >>> Tom :) >>> >>> >>> On 14 January 2014 04:12, Vince Radice <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I am seeing something and I don't know if it is a problem or something I >>>> have to live with. >>>> >>>> In the ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/backup directory, I have 3,000+ >>>> files >>>> with 0 bytes. I assume that this means the files are empty. There are >>>> other >>>> files there which are not empty. The non-empty ones appear to be backups >>>> of >>>> files I have worked on. The empty files all appear to be attempts to >>>> backup >>>> a Base database that I have created using the built in hsql engine. The >>>> file is stored on my computer. The time stamps on the files are unusual. >>>> There are 6 files with a time stamp of 15:58, 6 with 15:59, 6 with 16:00 >>>> and >>>> the pattern continues for the other 3,500 empty files. >>>> >>>> Does any one else have the same situation? I have the save/backup time >>>> in >>>> the general options set to 15 minutes. >>>> >>>> I have a listing of all of the files if anyone wants to see it. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Vince Radice >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe 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 >>>> >> -- To unsubscribe 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
