I think I may have found the culprit: tables having their property set
to have the header row repeat when the table spans pages.
I removed that setting from the tables in the source document whose
formatting I was trying to modify, and the problem is history: I can
load styles without triggering an infinite recovery loop and the file
remains operative.
Kyle
On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
Hi Barbara,
Although I have not yet tried copying and pasting portions of the
source document, I had modified table props in the initial document
to repeat their first header row when they span pages not long
before hitting these problems. So perhaps the bug is with tables.
However, I had also just modified some frames in which I place
single png images to control their position in the flow of the
doument. Without enclosing frames they jumped around to new
positions unexpectedly. However, a guy on IRC (irc.freenode.net >
qa.openoffice.org) mentioned an hour or so ago that there are some
known bugs with frames. So my question is, if frames are out as a
means of controlling the location of inserted picture (png files),
is there another good way?
Regarding canceling the recovery and checking out the files, once
the problem happens, I can't ever use the file into which I have
pasted content again. I can relaunch OO and open the target file,
but within less than a minute, OO crashes again.
Thanks,
Kyle
On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
Hi,
I'm using OpenOffice 2.3 writer on both Mac Leopard and Ubuntu
7.10, and I am having the same problem on both.
I have a large file (107 pages), and when I:
--select all
--copy
--past into another document
Open Office crashes and goes into its file recovery cycle, which
seems to succeed but upon opening the recovered files, Open Office
crashes again after a short time, initiating the recovery process
again. So now the files appear to be completely lost.
I am doing this so I can covert the existing content to a new set
of styles in order to modify the visual design of everything
automatically. (Is there a better way to "import styles"?)
Has anyone had the same problem, or does anyone know what might be
causing this? Workaround?
thanks,
Kyle
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This kind of recovery loop certainly happens to others (there was a
recent thread about it) -- and in all the cases I've had myself, I
think the clipboard and/or Writer tables were usually involved. It
doesn't necessarily involve really large transfers..I'd recommend
canceling the recovery and see what you get in the files -- they
may actually be OK or nearly so. I'm sure you've already tried just
copying smaller amounts via the clipboard, taking things from
logical breakpoints in the document. Did that have any success?
Does there seem to be some particular kind of content that triggers
the problem?
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