Hi :) If something worked and suddenly stopped working as if by magic then the first thing to try is to rename your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Renaming is better than deleting because you might have tons of stuff in your profile (templates, galleries, Extensions, file-backups etc) that you don't want to lose. If renaming or deleting the User Profile DOES work then you might be able to copy chunks of your old one back and that can be a good way of trouble-shooting down to pin-point the problem. If you have deleted the User Profile then that is, of course, impossible. If you just renamed the User Profile then you can leave the trouble-shooting to a day when you do find time (or never but at least it's possible). If renaming DOES NOT help then you could rename the old one back without suffering any losses. On the other hand it is quite possible that you don't have anything exciting in your User Profile or that it might be a good time to start afresh with reconfiguring LO's settings and with installing fresh Extensions that you need now rather than trying to keep using ancient ones or ancient versions of ones you don't really use any more. If the problems happened straight after upgrading to a newer version then reverting to an older version makes a LOT of sense. Preferably an x.x.4 or higher. It's that 3rd digit that shows greater stability. The 4.1.4 should be about as solid as they get but some people are on 4.0.6 to get the extra stability of that although they miss out a lot on features and compatibility with MS formats. Although i have some machines still on 3.5.(something) without really missing anything but then my needs are modest for those machines. Anyway, 4.1.4 is a good release and it's worth carrying on following the 4.1.x branch as it gets developed further and stability increases further. However 30+ worksheets in a single file and 1Mb means it's quite a huge file! If you can't break it up easily (or even if you can but don't want to) then it is well worth considering using a specialist spreadsheeting program instead of Calc/Excel. Both the later are designed to integrate well with other modules/programs within an office suite but means you are carrying extra baggage and your computer is using resources to make it easy to switch into Presentations, Drawing programs, and all sorts of stuff that you probably don't need while using the spreadsheet. A specialist tool focussing resources on, and designed purely for handling, spreadsheets might be better. Gnumeric uses the same formats as Calc natively and can also handle the relevant MS formats and is often found to out-perform Excel and even Calc especially on low spec. machines. http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric >From their News section the quick link to directly download their latest Windows version is http://people.gnome.org/~mortenw/gnumeric/gnumeric-1.12.9-20131128.exe NOTE this directly downloads an Exe file!!! I NEVER usually give links like that because you don't know me and have no reason to trust me so you really should try the first link and have a look around for yourself before attempting any downloading! The only reason i give it this time is because i found it difficult to find on their site so i just wanted to make it easier for you. Regards from Tom :) On 17 February 2014 23:24, Tim Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > my thoughts FWIW. I would suggest restoring the latest version, deleting > your user profile and trying again. This has been known to work in the past. > > What operating system are you using? > > is this an old file which has seen a number of different LO versions? > > Cheers > > On 18/02/14 03:33, Tom Cloyd wrote: >> >> I'm reverting to ver. 4.1.4.2, after spending almost 40 min. this morning >> trying to isolate a problem. I could reliable crash the problem by trying to >> copy two cells in Calc to another location in the same sheet. I got this >> error message: >> >> /vector::_M_range_check >> >> /I'm working and have no time to go beyond posting the problem here. >> That's just the reality of my life this Monday morning. I'd attempt a bug >> report, but every time I've tried that I've gotten lost in the sheer >> strangeness of the process. No time for that either. >> >> I can offer to share the spreadsheet in which the crash occurs, for what >> that's worth. It has maybe 30 sheets and is about a meg. in size. I did find >> that removing about 15 of the sheets appeared to stop the problem, for >> unknown reasons. >> >> t. >> // >> > > > -- > 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
