hi and thanks for getting back to me. i'm not sure what the problem was that stopped me from opening the file. i had worked on a document for a few hours, saving all the while, and then I received a notification, "system crashed". like as in past tense, no warning. i couldn't open nor retrieve my doc using any open office (dbase, calc, or open doc) program, nor could i open the openoffice program itself any longer. so i looked for the uninstall program, read up on the website, and finally figured i just had to delete program. how simple! but it took me forever to determine that was the way i was supposed to do it. even so, when i rebooted, all these windows came up to tell me that there had been an error (!), to report the error (which i did), and that the file was not recovered. i had figured that last part out by myself.
so i decided to download the "more stable" version 1.1.5 instead of the beta version 1.1.9. the recover window popped up again and said we could try to recover the file again. so i tried again and ... it worked! it is and was extremely slow, though. like i might have not thought it worked but i got distracted on a phone call and a few minutes later there it was on my screen! but it was a few_minutes_later! so good ending to a couple day saga. but it leaves me a bit wary now. does it normally take a long time to open docs? ajk -----Original Message----- From: john geldman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:49 PM To: [email protected]; Kumar, Amba Jane Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Amba Jane What is the problem stopping you from opening your file? Can you open calc and run the file->open command? Is there some warning or crash? On 9/22/05, Kumar, Amba Jane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i can't seem to get open office to open my (important) project that i spent > hours creating in scalc. i think i may need to uninstall/install. please > contact me immediately via email or phone: 831-460-9923. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
