Re: Constant crashes
On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, S P wrote: Hi, I've come to loathe the scammy Adobe and WORD services. I've paid them thousands and they just keep wanting more. and more and more $$ So, I decided to give Apache Open Office a try. Unfortunately, even with the latest version, every document I attempt to create crashes and loses info, even after saving. Everything is fully updated. It just randomly crashes and I have to recreate. greetings! you might want to tell people what operating system you are using and maybe describe what you are doing that subsequently leads to a crash. so: (a) are you on Windows? Windows 10 or Windows 11? or some edition of the Mac? or Linux? which distribution? (b) what version exactly of OpenOffice are you using? what are typically you doing when crashes occur? any pattern you detect? not sure I can help trouble-shooting but no one can help effectively without more information. In addition, finding simple functions, like adding page numbers is not at a intuitive and editing documents is a nightmare; make such a mess of things, I actually print, edit by hand, and scan back in, so I can complete my work, adding on needless hours of labor. not so hard to add page numbers and so on but you gotta fix the crashes. fjd So, I guess I will have to go back to the 2 biggest extortionists because Apache Open Office has is slowed my work flow to a halt. Frustrated and tired of being fleeced, Susan greatoutdoors...@gmail.com -- Davis Verbum sat sapienti. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice locked up
On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, Rod Christ wrote: You do not understand. The program is LOCKED on my screen. I cannot use any of its features, I cannot close or open any windows within the program. I cannot shut it down, I cannot delete it. It is a s useless as tits on an alligator. UNDERSTAND?? I believe you didn't understand the instructions. Go to the Start Menu in Windows - tell us if you don't know what this is. And note it's part of Windows, not of OpenOffice. Note there's probably a simpler way to do the following but I'm not mainly a Windows user and this should work (first read through these instructions before executing any of them): (0) to shut down OpenOffice, enter 'ctl + alt + delete' keys at once, choose 'task manage'; find OpenOffice; right-click; choose 'end task'; you can close 'task manager' if you want. (I don't know if Dick Groskamp has a better way?) then: (1) type 'cmd' (no quotes) (2) click 'run as an administrator' (3) write or copy the command Dick Groskamp gave you, making sure to enter your actual username. (4) then restart OpenOffice. report back with questions, results, etc. Felmon On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 10:23 AM Dick Groskamp wrote: Try to renew your userprofile. Close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter (if enabled) Go to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4 There is a folder called user. Rename that folder to something else, for instance "user_old" Go back and restart OpenOffice. It will make a new folder user. This method often solves strange problems :-) On 2023/12/09 15:04:14 Rod Christ wrote: I recently upgraded to a new Lenovo laptop with Windows 11. I also downloaded OpenOffice ver. 4.1.14. It has never been stable. When I finish a document (mostly easy spreadsheets0 I cannot reopen the document. The program goes back and must restore and reload ALL prior documents before I can access any of the docs. That was a pain in the neck, but things worked. Today, it required "defragging" all prior documents again, but stalled and locked up totally. It has not started a recovery on ANY of the docs and locked up entirely. The things I had done previously were expendable so I decided to uninstall and reinstall. That does not work. The "rebuilding" panel is not responding to closing with an X, - or resize. Likewise, the larger window does not respond. All I can do is go back and work on other pages, mail, facebook, etc. I thought closing all open windows and restarting would help but that did not work either. What can I do to get past this logjam?Thanks, Rod Christ 563/258-1849 email is cozum...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Davis Verbum sat sapienti. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice locked up
On Sun, 10 Dec 2023, Linda Hull wrote: Rod Christ, I think that's a smart move for now. MS hasn't cooked up their best upgrade yet this time. Linda On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Rod Christ wrote: Thanks, but I had Best Buy uninstall it. The link provides overly complicated instructions. Ctrl+Alt+Del, choose process and 'end task'. Seems more straightforward. I wonder how much gooing to Best Buy cost in gas, technician's charges? Not to mention time. Not a big fan of Windows 11 but this kind of foul-up happens sometimes with OpenOffice, quite rare though, in my experience. (I don't use Quickstarter which may, I think, sometimes cause OO to get stuck.) fjd On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 3:24 AM Linda Hull wrote: Dear Rod Christ, I don't have Windows 11, but here is "How To Know Which Process Is Using a File in Windows 11?" It uses Resource Manager natively, or something which you can download called 'Handle'. With either one, you can kill the processes you want to kill. https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/know-which-process-is-using-file-win-11.html Linda On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 8:58 PM fjd wrote: On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, Rod Christ wrote: You do not understand. The program is LOCKED on my screen. I cannot use any of its features, I cannot close or open any windows within the program. I cannot shut it down, I cannot delete it. It is a s useless as tits on an alligator. UNDERSTAND?? I believe you didn't understand the instructions. Go to the Start Menu in Windows - tell us if you don't know what this is. And note it's part of Windows, not of OpenOffice. Note there's probably a simpler way to do the following but I'm not mainly a Windows user and this should work (first read through these instructions before executing any of them): (0) to shut down OpenOffice, enter 'ctl + alt + delete' keys at once, choose 'task manage'; find OpenOffice; right-click; choose 'end task'; you can close 'task manager' if you want. (I don't know if Dick Groskamp has a better way?) then: (1) type 'cmd' (no quotes) (2) click 'run as an administrator' (3) write or copy the command Dick Groskamp gave you, making sure to enter your actual username. (4) then restart OpenOffice. report back with questions, results, etc. Felmon On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 10:23 AM Dick Groskamp wrote: Try to renew your userprofile. Close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter (if enabled) Go to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4 There is a folder called user. Rename that folder to something else, for instance "user_old" Go back and restart OpenOffice. It will make a new folder user. This method often solves strange problems :-) On 2023/12/09 15:04:14 Rod Christ wrote: I recently upgraded to a new Lenovo laptop with Windows 11. I also downloaded OpenOffice ver. 4.1.14. It has never been stable. When I finish a document (mostly easy spreadsheets0 I cannot reopen the document. The program goes back and must restore and reload ALL prior documents before I can access any of the docs. That was a pain in the neck, but things worked. Today, it required "defragging" all prior documents again, but stalled and locked up totally. It has not started a recovery on ANY of the docs and locked up entirely. The things I had done previously were expendable so I decided to uninstall and reinstall. That does not work. The "rebuilding" panel is not responding to closing with an X, - or resize. Likewise, the larger window does not respond. All I can do is go back and work on other pages, mail, facebook, etc. I thought closing all open windows and restarting would help but that did not work either. What can I do to get past this logjam?Thanks, Rod Christ 563/258-1849 email is cozum...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Davis Verbum sat sapienti. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Davis Verbum sat sapienti. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
