Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

On 11/08/11 00:10, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
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> On 08/10/2011 12:41 AM, Simon Cropper wrote:
> > Unless someone recognised these symptoms and can put forward some ideas,
> > I am treating this as a corrupt file.
>
>
> When LO can't read its own handwriting, so to speak, does that not prove
> LO has a serious problem?
> When you use only the tools provided by LO to manipulate your document
> and that document gets trashed due to corruption, does that not prove LO
> has a serious problem?
>
> Now that you've concluded that "corruption" has occurred, what do you
> think should happen to the software that did the corrupting?
>
> A: ) Should it get fixed?
> or
> B: ) Should it stay broken, and in return for not expending the effort
> to fix the underlying rot, you'll accept the next releases 3 new bells
> and 4 whistles?
>
> Check the archives and you'll note that file corruption is a frequent
> problem. Its as though giving buggy software the label "file corruption"
> absolves the developers of investigating and eliminating the underlying
> code bugs.
>
> I've been reporting corruption issues for years and in that time only
> one developer (with an oracle email address) ever showed any interest.
> Even he dropped off the radar when Oracle lost interest in the office suite.
>
> Does LO provide a needed service? Yes it does, just as a Ford coasting
> down a highway provides a service. The difference is that if a Ford gas
> tank blew up periodically, Ford would fix it.
>
> - --
> Bill Gradwohl
> Roatan, Honduras
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Bill,

It is obvious that you do not like OO or LO Calc, and that you don't 
like the fact that your data is continually corrupted.

You also say you continuously have to rebuild your spreadsheet and that 
the process can take several days.

If you are so unhappy with the format, corruption and dirty code, my 
question is "why do you persist?" Change packages. With the time and 
effort you have already put into recreating corrupted spreadsheets you 
could of written your own application or mastered alternative packages.

I am not trying to be rude here it just if I had a package that caused 
me so much wasted time I would just move on.

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Cheers Simon

   Simon Cropper
   Principal Consultant
   Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
   PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC
   W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au

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