Re: [libreoffice-users] file format problem?

       Sorry; sounds as if you're 'stuck between a rock & a hard place"

       May be the hieroglyphic nature which is confusing the machine ???



From: Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@hb.tp1.jp>
Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] file format problem?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


On 2016/04/07 0:16, anne-ology wrote:


>     [yet another program?]

SpiderOak is not a program but a cloud storage service like Dropbox.
What I save on one computer will be synchronized (AND older versions
archived) with my other computers.


    [suggestion: open LO - then attempt to open saved document, allowing it
> to translate if necessary;
>         hopefully, your file will re-appear.]
That did not help.
I opened the .docx file with LO in the first place, upon saving accepted
the proposed (by LO) .docx format.


The file contained originally about 4300 Japanese characters.
> Even though there was nothing on my screen beyond the first 1/3 of that
> file, its size did not change.
> When I deleted the second 2/3 of the original file, the original size of
> 470 kb shrank to 130 kb.
> After I re-typed all the lost work and saved that first as .ODT and then
> later as .docx, file size was 23 and 16 kb respectively.
>
>     [these are MsFt not LO documents.]

After the trouble occurred, I copied TEXT ONLY into Writer, finished work
there AND THEN saved first as .odt and then as .docx (same file)

Necessity for Word format: translation agencies send me those Word file ->
expect them to be "overwritten" ->
AND expect Word files back. Which will then be sold to the clients who
ordered the translations. (translation not of file formats, but of text:
manuals, books, letters etc.)
If I start mumbling "I use only odt format ...", they will probably stop
sending me work. Then I will starve to death ...

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