[COLUG] OpenOffice 2.4 Instability??

[Tom Hanlon]

On 2 Jul 2008, at 10:46, Joshua Kramer wrote:

>
> Howdy Folks,
>
> Has anyone upgraded to OpenOffice 2.4 (or, 2.4.1) on RHEL or CentOS  
> 5.2?
>
> It seems like it's far more crash-happy, especially when handling  
> Microsoft Word documents.  For instance, last night I had an 8 page  
> document I wanted to send to someone else.  I first saved in ODF  
> for an "archival" copy, then saved in Word97 format.
>
> I wanted to change the document, so I tried opening the Word97  
> format file.  OO got into a loop where it crashed; then, when I  
> restart and select "Recover Document", it would crash again... ad  
> infinitum.  If I broke out of the cycle and worked on the ODF  
> document, it was fine.


How funny that the open office team has managed to replicate an  
annoying "feature" of MS word. I have seen this loop in MS word. The  
solution or trick is to find the temp files and do some renaming to  
trick the recover process.

>
> Is this happening to anyone else?
>
> Cheers,
> -J
>
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