> So it seems that the issue is resolved then? > The organization has suffered some dataloss and I've been working like hours to go through emails and paper files and calling people trying to get the data back. When I'm done I will then have to convert about 30 spreadsheets and I haven't even looked at how many word processor documents, and convert then to MSO 2003's native format, then check again for formatting and dataloss. OOo will not be used in the end, this whole OOo switch has been a headache for all involved and while I'm not sorry that it happened as I have learned a lot about what a real organization needs from an office suite, quite a few people are sorry that they tried this free thing and listened to Dotan. I've lost quite a bit of respect from some people but gained a bit from some less important people. I have a list of bugs to file and features to request as a result, I will get to that when I finish with this project.
I cannot reproduce the rounding incident, but from my familiarity with the project and the person operating the machine, I do not suspect user error. I suspect that moving from OOo 2.2 (as it turns out, this whole thing started off as an experiment over two years ago!) to 2.3 to 2.4 to 3.0 to 3.1 had something to do with the loss. I simply don't have the time to perform the upgrades and test so thoroughly, but if anyone wnats to try I can provide information. There were other dealbreakers as well, such as the American dates issue when editing a date in Calc. That was and continued to be a huge issue, and has caused dataloss in the past. Why is the least significant figure (days) in the American date format in the middle?!? Do American didgital watches use the HH:SS:MM format by any chance? And what of backups? Some files, but not all due to space considerations, will simply be put in a BackMeUp directory that will be copied to DVD whenever someone feels like it. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
