Hi :) Glad to hear it went well! It's a bit nerve-racking even though i have done this every time in the last several years myself and have seen others give the same advice (albeit many years ago). Congrats and regards from Tom :)
On 14 May 2016 at 13:20, John R. Sowden <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you. I tried it and it worked, ... and the security file is > intact. :) :) > > John > > > > On 05/14/2016 01:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> I think it's a left-over from a previous era that is rarely useful >> nowadays. Just click on "don't bother to attempt to recover because i'm >> happy with just opening the file" - or however it phrases it! >> >> In reverse order ... >> >> 3. No, password protection is not a factor with LO's / AOO's desire to >> try >> to apologise for having been shut-down and it's attempt to please it's >> human in a somewhat nervous way. Firefox tries to do something similar. >> >> 2. No the file is unlikely to be missing anything or to be at all >> damaged. In the last 10 or so years many advances in technology have >> reduced both the chance of a hardware, firmware or software crash >> happening >> in the first place (even in Windows) and have reduced the chance of such >> crashes damaging anything. Journalised file-systems such as Ntfs and Ext3 >> (or higher) have become quite widely used, as one example. >> >> 1. I don't know why this still exists but it "goes against the grain" to >> post a feature request to make things more vulnerable ! Maybe it is time >> to relegate this feature to being a menu-item, such as the "Help" menu or >> somewhere. >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> On 13 May 2016 at 16:47, John R. Sowden <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Whenever I start LO 5, I get a message about a file that is damaged and I >>> am asked if I want to fix it. I say yes, LO comes back and says it >>> cannot >>> be fixed. >>> >>> I am able to access the file (password protected SS) with no problem. >>> >>> I am offered the option of deleting information regarding fixing the >>> problem. Once when this happened months ago, I said yes. I got an 'are >>> you sure?' msg box. This worries me. >>> >>> Q1: Why am I receiving this when I can access the file fine? >>> >>> Q2: What is in the file that has recovery information; is the the damaged >>> file? >>> >>> Q3: Is the fact that the file is password protected a factor here? >>> >>> >>> Ubuntu 14.04 >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 > -- 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
