Re: [LUG] Open Office Recovery WAS: Holsworthy Memorial Hall

On 5/18/07, Terry Hill <telbonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry it's taken a while to get back to you - can you try the following:

start Impress / Draw, click on 'Window/New'.
save the (new) doc, create an object (e.g. a rectangle or whatever),
then reload, click yes.
does it crash?

No, just loaded a blank Draw screen.
I think that I precipitated a file recovery when I reversed the scroll button from moving the cursor downward to upward. I'm afraid that I tend to do this smartly. This may not be the reason for requiring file recovery, but I'm fairly sure that it is is what happened last time. The mouse is a MS with 2 buttons and a scroll wheel. Do you want me to go on experimenting? Robin

On 16/05/07, Robin Menneer <robinmenneer@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
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> On 5/15/07, Terry Hill <telbonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How old is the laptop that's giving you the hassle?  I use OO on a
> > desktop & two laptops without any crashes/recovery (one of them is a
> > presario r3000 and the other an acer travelmate).
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> > Do any of the errors have a common thread; what errors are you getting?
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> > > > I take a lot of care to keep well away from MS.  I use OO with Ubuntu
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> > > an old compaq laptop.  The OO recovers quite happily most of the time,
> it's
> > > just frustrating to have to wait.
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> The laptop is a  Compaq Armada M700 and may be more than six years old.  I
> had an earlier version of OO which didn't hang up and then bring in the
> recovery routine.  I look for a common feature without success except that
> the file recovery mode usually appears when I am in Draw.
> How the different business with the Applications &c menu being at the bottom
> of the screen came about I have no idea at all except I was in Draw doing
> nothing special.  Robin
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