On 14/05/11 01:27, NoOp wrote:
On 05/12/2011 01:50 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Kara Samantha Mcdermott wrote:
Alright. My College Thesis has been "corrupted." I am not fooling around
....
You have already had answers to this on the OOoForum [1].
[1] http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=123234&highlight=
Actually I think the fact that users documents end up as data files with
# pound signs (all hex zeros in the actual file) merits further
Actually, Kara's appears to be full of null characters - 430024 of them
according to wc. So it may or may not be related to the '#' type of issue.
....
In the past I recall advising to change the default temp location to
other than /tmp (I reset my Temporary file paths to
/home/<user>/.openoffice.org/2/User/temp for safety. This is because of
the system crashes (power or otherwise) the /tmp (or similar on Windows)
files will be cleared on reboot. ....
That depends of course very much on what the system admin has decided to
do. On XP, I find \windows\temp becomes distressingly full, which
appears to be the default :-( *nix varies a lot. But I don't see how
that relates to file corruption - loss, perhaps, corruption, no.
regarding this, but can't find them at the moment.
In any event, I think the issue needs further attention. If I get some
time later in the week I'll try a few tests to see if I can replicate.
Gary
I think the bigger lesson is that people need to learn how to use the
tools they have. It's too easy for the newbie to assume everything's
100% reliable, when in fact nothing is - the result being that basic
safety precautions are omitted.
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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