Hi, Yes, that is an old bug becoming more visible on macOS because some extensions were updated recently.
Just as a quick "work around": Please disable the option for "Online Update" in your AOO preferences. Regards, Matthias Am 23.06.22 um 12:09 schrieb PCS: > CORRECTION, the Extension Update glitch froze a spreadsheet I had put aside > in the Dock and forgotten was open when I tested with a couple of new > documents. It was successfully recovered but it is still a serious glitch. > > ________ > > > I have used LibreOffice on Linux fairly often over the past 12 years and > occasionally on the Mac (my main computer), but I prefer OpenOffice on the > Mac. > > LO seems to be more fully featured than OO and some of its features are > better implemented than the same ones in OO, but overall I find OO easier to > use (for what I use it for, others may disagree) despite a couple of annoying > issues (the worst is the RH side panel popping out unwanted if you happen to > click on its opening button when scrolling up or down or when resizing a > window: the activator should be out of the way, in the top menu panel, or at > least have an option to move it out of the way, maybe some people actually > like the Jack-in-a-box). The less frequent updates of OO is a plus also, > obviously we all want to be up to date with security but other than that I > see no need for frequent updates of a bread-and-butter application that does > the job you need it to do, unless there is a genuine improvement, like > stopping the RH panel from being a Jack-in-the-box, or if it needs to be > updated for compatibility with an OS update. > > So overall I am content to stay with OO rather than move to LO (I do have LO > installed, but I rarely use it), and unless OO and LO can be successfully > merged, with options to allow users to configure the merged app to work the > way they want to work, I would not want to see OO “wound down and shuttered”. > > All Flaviu Tamas needs to do, after all, is to uninstall OO and use LO, > problem solved for him without denying others what for them is a useful > alternative. Who is he anyway, to try to dictate that we should all use the > app he prefers? That seems pretty arrogant to me, he should not assume that > he knows what is best for me better than I do. He is probably like my father, > who used to say, when he owned a 1928 Dodge, “If you can’t afford a Dodge, > dodge a Ford”, then changed it to, “If you can’t afford a Ford, dodge a > Dodge” when he bought a 1953 Ford Customline, i.e. "I am such an expert that > whatever I buy / have / use is automatically what everyone else should buy / > have / use. Flaviu should just use the app he/she prefers and let others > continue to have access to the one they prefer, and I am surprised that > nobody else has told him/her that already. > > There is an annoying glitch in the recent OO Mac update that seems to make > the case for not updating without good reason. When an OO document is opened > now, the green update arrow appears in the main menu bar, but when you click > on it it doesn’t work properly. For a while it opened an initially > transparent Extension Manager window offering a Spelling dictionary when you > clicked it visible, but clicking on it froze the application and it had to be > Force Quit and reopened. The app's data recovery feature minimised data loss, > but it was still a nuisance. I have been ignoring the green arrow to > circumvent the problem, but have just tried it again (with a new document, so > as not to risk compromising a real one), and now the problem seems to be half > fixed, clicking on the green arrow in the main menu bar doesn’t do anything, > not even offer a genuine extension update, so at least the app no longer > freezes. But this is a good example of why I am normally a late updater, > because new updates of the OS or an app often have glitches in them that I > would much rather have discovered by other people than discover myself, hence > my dislike of LO’s much more frequent updates, I haven’t had problems with > them, but the more frequent they are the greater is the risk, so I prefer > less frequent and better tested updates, and the glitch in recent OO update > is a significant disappointment. > > PCS > > > >> On 23 Jun 2022, at 5:16 pm, Frank McIsaac <snapa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well said FC >> >> Regards >> Snapafun - Frank&Jan >> Rock'n'Rolling Forever >> >> On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, 6:20 pm Fernando Cassia, <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 22/06/2022, Flaviu Tamas <m...@flaviutamas.com.invalid> wrote: >>>> Why hasn't OpenOffice been wound down & shuttered? >>>> >>>> The existence of the website makes users assume that OpenOffice is >>>> still actively being developed >>> It is. >>> >>>> when those users would be much better >>>> served migrating to LibreOffice. >>> Speak for yourself. I for one wouldn' t touch LO with a 10ft pole. >>> >>>> I've seen this conversation several times over the past few years in >>>> various open source communities. >>> Cows see a lot of trains pass by while pasturing, and that doesn' t >>> make the cows train engineers. >>> >>>> At the very least, a prominent notice that users should use >>>> LibreOffice on the main OpenOffice site would be nice. >>> Please, go away, >>> >>> FC >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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