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Offline melodie

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[SOLVED] OpenOffice.org Writer - can't save documents
« on: September 10, 2010, 04:18:45 AM »
Hi,

Does anyone meet with this problem ? I typed a letter, and when ready to "Save it as", the window stays iddle at this stage, doesn't move anymore and blanks.

Htop doesn't show any sign of exceeded resources, memory and cpu use are even very low. I restarted OpenOffice and tried the restore function, but it opened a blank document : nothing of my work has been saved.

I tried to "save it as" before typing while the document was still empty : same problem.

So I can't use it, although it seems to be the latest version. Else, we can't get the components separately anymore from Synaptic, it's Getopenoffice : all, or nothing, which brings us to more than 450 MB used. I have installed Abiword, but I prefer to use Openoffice.

Thanks for telling me about your findings about Openoffice.
« Last Edit: September 16, 2010, 11:46:06 PM by Texstar »
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Re: OpenOffice.org Writer - can't save documents
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 06:15:31 AM »
Hi Meoldie,
Just tried writing a document and saving. Both save and save as work ok for me.
Here is one solution for you.
I actually downgraded to Open Office 3.2.0, here is the link  I followed:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,78950.0.html

Since Open Offfice is managed by Oracle, I cannot print duplex from Open Office,
but can with kwrite. I never had this problem when Sun Microsystems managed
Open Office.



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Re: OpenOffice.org Writer - can't save documents
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 06:39:05 AM »
Hi,

It is solved.

Get rid of the ooobasis3.2-kde-integration
 package, then:

Quote
<cbosdonnat> melodie, Tools > Options > General
<melodie> et ?
<cbosdonnat> melodie, Use OpenOffice.org dialogs
<melodie> ok, merci !


And it works.
That was a help from ericb2 and cbosdonnat at freenode, chan #fr.openoffice.org

For me it is solved for now.




http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,77859.new.html#new

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,78624.new.html#new

Thanks to menotu, to jackrandle, for their clues, and thanks to ericb2 and cbosdonnat, french Openoffice.org developers.

The file that helped them debug after I followed their instructions, is here:
strace.log.txt.zip

45890 lines...


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