There have been many reports of OpenOffice files Writer and Impress (not sure about Calc), of all versions, suddenly losing pictures, and leaving only a blank frame.
I use the Xubuntu LTS versions, running usually the latest Apache OpenOffice, more recently the 4.5.0 nightlies. I have not used Windows since 2007/8, so cannot say if the following remarks have relevance to that version LibreOffice have fixed the problem of picture loss, at a cost (from memory) of 44,000 euro. I regularly make and re-edit Impress presentations, some of considerable size (~100+ slides, for later selection) and some of 10/12 years of age, and have found a method that seems to overcome the picture loss. My files are stored on a network addressed storage; I have disabled "Save Autorecovery every n seconds" (entering 0); in more than 9 years of using that setting in OpenOffice, both in the creation and editing of large Impress presentations of 100+ slides containing images and also of several illustrated booklets, I have never lost pictures. Prior to disabling the AutoRecovery process, I regularly did lose images. My guess is that the AutoRecovery process, when it happens, does not correctly preserve the existing OpenOffice environment, perhaps itself being interrupted by input keystrokes from the User. I do not offer this as a sure-fire solution, but merely record my experience -- 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
