Re: [libreoffice-users] File corruption on OSX and LO 4252

Hi :)
Surely just go back to the last back-up or find a copy in emails or on a
usb-stick.  Any chance of it being in a temp folder or auto-backup or
something?

Btw do all the different machines you use run the same version of MS Office
as each other?
Regards from
Tom :)




On 15 July 2014 21:41, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> I encountered a most infuriating problem today when working with LO on
> OSX - file corruption when writing to an external disk drive.
>
> As I'm often having to work with different machines, and different OSes,
> I have an external FAT formatted LaCie hard drive to store my files on.
> This works great on Linux, Windows and OSX.
>
> Until LO 4252, I had never encountered any file corruption issues,
> absent power cuts and NFS shares ;-) and I have been using StarOffice,
> then OpenOffice and now LO since StarOffice first became available for
> OSes other than Windows - that just goes to show how long my teeth are
> with regard to this product.
>
> However, in the space of a fortnight, LO 4252 has successfully trashed
> two Writer documents that I was working on, irreparably, once about a
> fortnight ago, and once today. The first time it happened, I thought it
> was a one-off, and I actually hadn't been working on the file for long
> when it happened.
>
> Today, I lost two hours work, and working to a very tight deadline
> thanks to a client's late order. Needless to say, I was/am not impressed.
>
> The file can not be opened in any of the following :
>
> OOo 3.2.1
> OOo 4.0.0
> LO 3.6.7
> LO 4.1.3
> LO 4.2.5
>
> The file can not be unzipped or repaired with zip, and yet it is stated
> as weighing in at 73 kb (of binary rubbish).
>
> I love LO, and the whole open source idea, but the product needs a
> serious quality rethink if things like this can happen. I have had no
> such issues on Linux, which just goes to show that the developers, as a
> whole, give little heed to the changes they make in the code and the
> effect it can have on other OSes (Windows, Mac) - as they would say,
> "how are we supposed to know whether change x or y will have an impact
> on a closed source OS ?" - more attention is given to the Windows arena
> because that is where the perceived markets are for the taking. This
> leaves the little people like Joe Bloggs / Jane Doe, etc, here, to deal
> with the issues on OSX, of which there are many, and too few developers
> willing or interested to care about fixing them.
>
>
> Had I stuck to MS Word (yes, I have Office 2011 for Mac), this would not
> have happened, of that I am certain. Had I stuck to 4.1.x, this would
> not have happened either, but no that is now obsolete...instead we have
> a 4.2.5.x as "stable" with deficiencies like the one I encountered, and
> as a businessman, I begin to seriously start questioning the
> benefit/risk assessment of the whole LO thing.
>
> This is just a word of warning to others, as they say "your mileage may
> vary".
>
> Alex
>
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