I reverted to version 5.1.6.2 and it "works" as I was used to. After reading bug reports (including the one pointed to in this question's current answer), I understand that most folks did not like it "working" that way and it was changed in more recent versions. That would be fine, except I would like the option for it to work as before:
First, I'm running Windows 7.
In Writer, after editing my .odt file, I use "file" --> "save as" --> .html.
In 5.1.6.2, Writer creates one .html file in which all the pictures are embedded. The newer versions of Writer create one .html file with gobs of .jpg files with long names with long strings of numbers in them (one per picture in the document). Yeah, sure I can zip the whole mess up and send it to our webmaster, but he has grown to prefer the One File Solution!
I thought that maybe using "break links" under the "edit" menu in the newest Writer version might embed those images. It does indeed break the links, but the images are not embedded. Instead, there's a blank box where the image should be.
HTML files are plain text files. The only way I can think of to embed an image is to encode it like some small images in CSS.
Please explain what you are trying to replicate in the previous version.
And what is the previous version of LO you are going back to? so I can test