On 5 Oct 2007 at 19:59, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:57 05/10/2007 +0100, Mike Scott wrote: > >I have been doing some work from XP, with OOo (2.3) getting its > >files off drive H:, a network drive (served by samba 3.0.25a on > >freebsd 6.2 as it happens). Normally, no problem. > > > >However there's obviously an XP oddity, in that if XP hibernates and > >is woken up again, the network drives are quite often left > >disconnected. That means that drive H: (in my case) doesn't appear > >in any of the 'save' menus (anywhere, not just in OOo). More > >annoyingly, if I then try to just 'save' the file I've been working > >on when hibernation occurred, that save fails ... > > Other people have had problems when systems recover after > hibernation. It's perhaps worth saying, then, that good practice > would be always to save open documents before leaving your system if
I do. I trust XP implicitly :-) And I do anyway generally when I've done enough to make hitting ^S worthwhile. > your absence could be long enough to bring about hibernation. Oh, > and I suppose a practice of saving again immediately after the > recovery would at least flag up the problem, so that it could be > attended to or worked around then, rather than after further work had > been done. Unfortunate, but probably sensible ... > > >... (some vague, general i/o error; the exact wording is probably > >not material). > > Ho, ho! Error messages are *always* material. ;^) I thought otherwise in this case - although iirc it actually /did/ say "general i/o error". I'm away from my machine right now, but come monday I'll force the problem, and post the exact message........ TBH I'm more interest in the usb-save thread, which seems to have died off. 'Gut feeling' says it's related. But then I'm wondering what /his/ error message was (Ok, Ok, I take your point :-) ) -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
