Good evening I am not sure whether this is a LibreOffice (?) problem or just MY problem. It happened before, but I will describe the latest episode.
I was working with Writer on a Word (.docx) file. As a translation job I was supposed to overwrite that file. The file contained images, tables and objects. After being 2/3 finished, I saved the file, went downstairs and wanted to continue working while having a coffee. However, when I opened the file, saved in SpiderOakOne, I noticed, that the latter 2/3 of the file were gone. Including 1/2 day of work. Even archived earlier versions of the same file showed only the first 1/3. Trying to open that file with MS Word, resulted in the following error: "File Format error at SAXParse Exception: [word/document.xml line 2]: Attribute w:hAnsi redefined Stream word/document.xml line 2, column 73305 (row,col)" The file contained originally about 4300 Japanese characters. Even though there was nothing on my screen beyond the first 1/3 of that file, its size did not change. When I deleted the second 2/3 of the original file, the original size of 470 kb shrank to 130 kb. After I retyped all the lost work and saved that first as .ODT and then later as .docx, file size was 23 and 16 kb respectively. A different translator translating the same file (probably using MS Word) into a different language had apparently no problems. What is happening here? Does this mean Writer has problems handling MS Word files? Is it the incomprehensible .docs format? Do I HAVE to use Word for such file? Something I really do not want to do! Is there anything to PREVENT this kind of event? (retyping my work all the time will get me into real trouble!) Thomas -- 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
