Librae Office is frozen in ‘not responding’. I am in the middle of an academic important essay and have not saved my work for ages. I must not lose this work. When will it begin to respond? It has been ages now, and I need to get to writing my academic essay.
Regards, dave
Funny nobody mentioned to try to disable OpenCL which, in addition to profile corruption, causes issues.
I guess once or twice the ‘not responding’ was just painfully slow computation, so that it was possible every few minutes to execute some menu command, if you did not try to do too many at once. But that is rare; in my experience, most of the time when LO goes ‘not responding’, that is a permanent fault.
If it were me, I would crash out of it, hope for the autorecovery tools to salvage some of the work on LO restart-- they almost always do, tell them to recover and save it when offered the choice, and get going reconstructing anything that was lost as soon as possible. But I’m just telling you what I would do, you make your own choice. I’m also assuming it is not a hardware failure, which might call for different action.
IMHO, the thing with academic essays is the writing is much faster the second time anyway…
I did crash out of it Doug. Thing is it became locked! I tried to open it up in another office suite. To do this I deleted my internet protection Comodo first. I then mucked about trying to open it up in various other apps, because libre office is an option anymore. I cannot open it up in Libre office, because I do not know the programme details etc. So, I am sitting here looking at a locked essay! I should’ve read only I know, but its stuck now. Please help me someone. I beg you. xx
Less is more in data recovery, less extreme changes mean that when you figure out how to get it, it might still be there. “Locked” files-- that is new to me. Crash exit often requires manually terminating LO threads one-by-one. Neat trick-- you can reach the xml structure of a .docx by changing the extension to .zip. It’s really a zip file. “Locking” problem could be a simple as copying the doc to another folder and opening.
It’s absolutely pointless to use WinZIP, and WinRAR is obsolete cuz of 7-Zip; others are also obsolete and pointless. 7-Zip is smart enough to try to open files such as DOCX as ZIP.
Rule number 1: create back-ups.
Rule number 2: save your work every time after making changes (at least once every half hour).
LibreOffice has an option to automatically save your document, for example every 10 minutes. That should help you out in the future.
Why am I getting negative karma for my answer? What did I miss? Is good advice not appreciated? How much of your work are you actually missing. I assume not more then the work you did today, or am I mistaking?
I don’t get it either but there’s no downvote right now. Some moron thought it’d be funny, and so someone smarter upvoted to negate that moronity.
Thanks, I was already wondering what I did wrong :-s
Maybe it’s because Libre Office is not worth the donation
I have use it on two occasions, firstly 2 years ago and I continually saw 'not responding, so i bought a better product.
I was advised to try it again 4 weeks ago and guess what, same problem, So I will do the same.
You should not have to save your work every 30 minutes as suggested, it should perform better!
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me
Sorry but there are a lot of people using LibreOffice around the world without your supposed issues. If you like to test again please try resetting the user profile, sometimes solves strange issues.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Usually it’s enough renaming/deleting the file “user/registrymodifications.xcu”.
Your response defending a poor product is Typical.
Maybe there are lots of people using your poor product that don’t bother to question or complain because they did not make a donation and have the attitude 'Well what should have I expected for free?
I have learned a valuable lesson when trying free or cheap, it as always cost me more in frustration and inconvenience
People should take advice, if it’s of value and important to you, pay for it!
As somebody who has been developing software for more than three decades, I have to say that a fifth of the way into the 21st century it should be all but impossible to crash something like this. It should not at all be possible to lose work. I mean OMFG FFS If it is so flaky save 5 copies on an ongoing basis and journal 10 commits every keystroke. Writer crashed and won’t allow anything in LibreOffice to open. It is just not responding. It is an application in userland. Take a few processes to put up a heartbeat monitor, a backup journal and for goodness sake don’t block all your programs on a single downed process. It is just crazy. I have three machines running here and if your program needed it to keep going without destroying work I would say set up processes on them too.
This software started back in 1985 when typical machines measured RAM in kilobytes and had single CPU cores running at 16MHz. Before its 35th birthday maybe you can stop features and nail down stability.