Re: [libreoffice-users] Thanks for the advice Tom!!!

       I agree with you Ian!

       Cleaning out the cache ... re-booting ... ... ...
           I think these are used to confound us  ;-)

       Without Tom, many of us could remain befuddled  ;-)
          so I hope, Tom, you continue to spread your helpful hints.



On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi :)
> Lqtm :)  Thanks :)  Yes, it's a magic "waggle the wires" type of answer
> that a lot of much more knowledgeable people miss.
>
> On Ubuntu's Launchpad pseudo-forums for questions about sound issues i got
> used to asking the standard questions Mark Rijckenburg would usually ask,
> to save him the time.  In the same 1st response i would casually mention it
> worth unplugging and re-plugging the little green plug and the speaker's
> power-supply and switch the speakers on again.   Just doing  that seemed to
> fix around 60%-80% of problems!
>
> As a menu item it would need to say something like  "Reset LibreOffice
> back to factory defaults" but a few people might get an unexpectedly more
> pure set of defaults than they originally had because the version in their
> distro's repo or versions on unofficial sites or Cd/Dvds might have already
> been tweaked.
>
> Anyway, i'm glad the magic worked :)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> > From: Ian Whitfield <whitfield@telkomsa.net>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013, 7:32
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Thanks for the advice Tom!!!
> >
> > Hi Tom
> >
> > Just a "Shout Out" to you my friend!!
> >
> > I have noticed over the years that you are a regular informer to people
> having problems with LO (Me included!!) And that you frequently tell them
> to" Rename your Profile".
> > Well this week I was doing some work on comparing two printouts from two
> different Databases looking for common names, duplicates and missing names.
> I had pulled both lists into Calc and was happily getting the job done when
> LO froze-up, started writing to the HDD for some time and then crashed.
> > I said a few choice words and re-started - 10 mins later it happened
> again. I re-booted the whole system and tried again - same thing.
> > I re-created the Calc file and tried again - same result!!
> >
> > By this time my choice words were getting VERY colourful!! I sat back and
> thought about the problem. Then I remembered your frequent advice to
> "Rename the Profile" so I gave it a go.
> > MAGIC - all returned to its usual perfect condition and I have had no
> more problems.
> > Thanks Tom for pushing the fix and to have kept reminding us of it. I
> almost feel that a "Rename Profile" option should be added to the Menu -
> what do you think!!??
> > All the best and keep it up Tom
> >
> > IanW
> > Pretoria RSA

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