I experienced some extremely slow response time this morning while working on
a document that had many recorded changes. I was reviewing/revising a procedure
at work. It is relatively short, around 4 pages, with no graphic elements. The
file size is around 15K.
Nearing the end of the document, it very suddenly started taking forever to
respond. My definition of "forever" in this case: To insert a line break by
pressing Enter took around 3 minutes. To save the document also took around 3
minutes. I opened up, modified, and saved another document as a trial, and that
was fine.
I closed out of OOo, shut down, and restarted, and the problem persisted.
Finally, I tried saving the document as a different name (which again took
around 3 minutes), and in the new document, I went to Edit > Changes > Accept
or Reject, and Accepted All of the changes. Now the document gave normal
response time. So this was pretty clearly a result of the recorded changes.
I estimate that I had approximately 80 recorded changes, which seems like a
lot I agree. (There were a number of places where someone had put a list in a
paragraph form (items separated by commas), and I changed those places to
bulletized lists, which caused a pretty large number of separate changes to be
recorded each time.)
My question is whether this is to be expected (like is there a practical limit
to the number of changes that can be recorded?).
I'm on OOo 2.0.2, Windows XP. It's a networked system rather than an
individual PC so unfortunately I'm not sure of the memory.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
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