Re: [discuss] Unable to create ANY NEW .odt, .ods, .od* files in OOo 3.1
Mary Compton
----- Original Message -----
From: "William W. Austin" <wau...@speakeasy.net>
To: <dis...@openoffice.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:42 PM
Subject: [discuss] Unable to create ANY NEW .odt, .ods, .od* files in OOo
3.1
> Earlier today I filed a bug report, but I'm wondering whether I should
> have brought up the problem here first.
>
> Whenever I try to create a new writer, calc, or impress document and
> save it as a new .odt, .ods, or .odp file, I cannot. I bring up the
> sabe file dialog, name the file, and click the button to save it, but
> the screen only blinks and nothing happens. I can save in any other
> format listed (or I think so) and usually use a Micro$oft format. I
> then have to open THAT document using OOo 2.4 (which I reinstalled on
> both systems just for this purpose). Using that version I can save
> the file as the appropriate .odt, .ods, or .odp format and then I can
> close the 2.4 ap and restart OOo 3.1, open it with that version, and
> continue.
>
> This is not a permissions issue and root gets exactly the same results
> as my regular login ID does.
>
> There are no error messages and no warnings that I am aware of.
>
> The same problems occurs on multiple machines both running Fedora FC10.
> It occurred with OOo 3.0 and now with 3.1.0 [OOO310m11 (Build 99399)]
> (x86_64 version) This is repeatable 100% of the time and has occurred
> at least scores of times.
>
> This could be an environmental issue on these two machines since they
> are similar, but I have no way to test that theory at present
> as the other Linux boxes I have cannot currently (for employment
> reasons) have OOo installed on them.
>
> This did not occur with the fedora-fc10-x86_64 version, but it had
> other, worse problems (stylist was badly broken) and I removed it from
> the system before installing the OOo download version.
>
> I suspect there is also a small code issue involved, as the failure to
> create the file without any warning, error message, or explanation is
> probably not the likely expected behavior of the code involved.
>
> This does not occur on the windows machine I have or on those of my
> wife or my son so I expect that it is confined to Linux.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> --
> william w. austin wau...@speakeasy.net
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Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/19 2:57 PM Mary Compton wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William W. Austin"
> <wau...@speakeasy.net>
> To: <dis...@openoffice.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:42 PM
> Subject: [discuss] Unable to create ANY NEW .odt, .ods, .od* files in
> OOo 3.1
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