Impress images lost

[bugerror]

I was making a rather large impress file (75+ slides with some images on each slide) which took me hours upon hours. When I saved it as a pdf, however, I noticed that the background to all my slides was blue for some reason, where as on my original slides they were green and white.

I decided to save my impress and close it to see what would happen if i reopen it. And to my utter dismay the impress presentation was NOTHING like i had originally saved once re-opened.

The slides were completely corrupted. 95% of the images are error boxes. Text is flat out missing. Some slides appear completely blank when they were full of texts and images before. Needless to say I’m super pissed about this; this was a very important project and I’ve never had this issue on microsoft powerpoint.

I attempted to uninstall impress and re install the newest version, but the file STILL shows corrupted slides. Does anyone have a fix for this? I’m on impress version 6.4.3.2 if that helps.

[Hrbrgr]

Needless to say I’m super pissed about this; this was a very important project and I’ve never had this issue on microsoft powerpoint.

I hope you are just mad at yourself.

If someone is to help you here, your description will help you very little.

Please share with:

1. Which operating system do you use?

2. What file format did you save in?

3. How did you go about it?

4. Did you use a finished master slide or created one yourself?

You can reduce and anonymize your presentation (copy) so that you can upload it here.
To upload, edit your initial question and use the “paper clip” symbol.

[AdmFubar]

How old is your system and specifically how old is the hard drive? This sounds like a failing drive.

[bugerror]

@Hrbrgr

1. Windows 10
2. .odp
3. I uninstalled my previous version of libreoffice and installed the newest one. Errors still occured. I made another copy of the odp to see if opening it again in another file would fix the error. It did not. Finally I exported it to PDF as stated in the post and then re-opened it with libre impress. Errors still occurred.
4. I used a premade one.

@admfubar I built my pc about 3 years ago I’d say. The drive is the regular C:/ drive I’ve been using since the get go. Could possibly be a failing drive I guess.

[bugerror]

@Hrbrgr I’ll attempt to add it tmr I guess atm I’m not on my work-related computer My other family member is using it

[Hrbrgr]

Since you use a lot of pictures, it would also be possible that the pictures in “kB” are too big. What is the most common image size (kB, MB)?

[Grantler]

@bugerror According to @Hrbrgr another question: Did you link or embed the images?

[bugerror]

@bugerror I just dragged and dropped them into the slides

[bugerror]

@Hrbrgr the average size image is about 100KB, if that helps? Also I have added a shorter version of my slides to the question.

[Hrbrgr]

average size image is about 100KB

That seems to be OK.

[JohnHa]

It’s an LO bug - see [Bug 47148 (Image-Caching) - [META] Image handling problems ](http://Bug 47148 (Image-Caching) - [META] Image handling problems ). While most of the problems have been fixed with the new image handling code some are reported still to remain - See comment 41.

See Item 16. Lost images … and a word of caution about using AutoRecovery. LibreOffice 6.1 may now be better than AOO at [Tutorial] Some useful hints on using images (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum for an explanation.

Your images are lost from the file - note how much smaller it now is.

If you have AutoRecovery set to ON you could experiment with switching it off.

A thought. You can extract the images from the PDF you created.

It’s probably no consolation but it is now fairly infrequent …

NB Could you please edit the title to Impress images lost to help others searching.

[bugerror]

Thank you for the support! I have changed the title to your suggestion.