On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:22 +0100 Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> Am 12/30/2015 01:47 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > > On 12/30/2015 2:10 AM, Marcus wrote: > >> Am 12/30/2015 04:44 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > >>> +1 > >>> > >>> This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with people > >>> who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience with > >>> tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs in > >>> operating systems and prototypes of cache coherent multiprocessor > >>> servers, so I'm not scared of them. > >>> > >>> Now getting AOO to build on Windows 8.1...... > >> > >> great, this is indeed one of our most anoying bugs. If there is a way to > >> fix it, please try to help here. I could think of changing the order of > >> files that get written on AOO shutdown. > > > > The first step is to gather together, in one place, all known > > information about the bug. Bugzilla seems like a good place to do that. > > > > As asked below, is there a Bugzilla # on this? If not, we should > > create one. If, as is often the case, there are multiple numbers, we > > should pick one to be the canonical repository for information about the > > bug. > > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121930 > > This is a the issue we are pointing to any new issue that looks like the > typical spellchecker issue. From the duplicate list you can see that > there are already 71. Wow! > > But of course we should create a new one to start from scratch with new > information. ;-) > > > Once we have a Bugzilla number, anyone who knows anything, from basic > > symptoms to theories for a fix, should record their knowledge there. > > I've created a new issue: > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126762 > > Rory can ask the forums user John_Ha to write down there his analysis so > far. Then we would have a good starting point. > > Marcus > > I will do so. Rory > > >>> On 12/29/2015 6:33 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >>>> It sounds like that is what we should be working on, if we continue to > >>>> offer the option. > >>>> > >>>> Is there a Bugzilla # on this? > >>>> > >>>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>>> From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 11:08 > >>>>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > >>>>> Subject: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no > >>>>> auto > >>>>> backup copy. > >>>>> > >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>>>> Hash: SHA1 > >>>>> > >>>>> On 26/12/2015 15:55, Bill M wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I did find in options that in Options\Load Save\General “Always > >>>>>> create > >>>>> a > >>>>>> backup copy” was not checked. This should be checked by default. :( > >>>>> > >>>>> a) There is an extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible > >>>>> bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup > >>>>> copy" is checked. This bug both destroys data, and prevents the backup > >>>>> copy from being made. > >>>>> > >>>>> b) Manually saving the file is superior to automated backup, precisely > >>>>> one can save it to different folders, and thus rollback to earlier > >>>>> states is possible. (I'm deliberately ignoring OoSVN here.) > >>>>> > >>>>> jonathon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
