Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

Hi :)
Renaming the User Profile is usually a good 1st step when anything weird seems to be happening.  
Once you have done it once you find it's a very quick&easy thing to do and it's just as easy to 
copy the profile back to over-write the new one if it doesn't solve the problem.  

What 'should be' and "what is" are often so different that i put sarcastic ' quotes around 
'should'.  If you can't include the whole file can you include a tiny portion of it that does still 
suffer the same effects?  If you can't include the file at all then still post the report and just 
try to describe the issue (copy&paste comments from this thread).  It's always possible to add to 
the bug-report later just as easily as wriiting a new comment in an email thread like this one.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2013, 11:20
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Ahah, if AbiWord, or any other OpenSource office program, reads it fairly
> > well then there is something wrong with LibreOffice.  It is very unusual for
> > LO to have such an extreme reaction to a file.
> >
> > Can i recap on what has been tried so far?  Have you re-named the User
> > Profile
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
>
> No  I have not tried that.
>
> > That gets LO back to factory defaults and removes all Extensions.  If the
> > file still doesn't open then it's time for a bug-report about LO itself
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
>
> I may do that later, but do not want to now for two reasons. First,
> I have not tested your fix above. Second, A bug report should
> include the problem file so developers can reproduce the problem,
> but the file is a draft of an unpublished paper. I would happily
> give it to a specific developer, but I definitely do not want to
> post it publicly
>
> > So, to immediately work-around the problem does a save with Abiword
> > sufficiently fix the problem so that LO can open the file?
>
> Yes. I'll do save-as HTML from LO, clean that up some with
> vi, then return to LO and fix the format.
>
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