Length and images (I think) keep any doc from opening since crash

I’m on Linux Ubuntu. I’m new to it and LO. LO was working pretty well until I tried to add images. There was no warning (that I saw) about 450 pages being a lot and enough to cause instability.

When I began having crashes I thought i was incorrectly adding images and that was the problem.

Today I got conflicting notices, saying LO was recovering my doc, and saying it had recovered it.

I tried to save the whole doc “save as” but I don’t think anything happened.

When I was able to open a bit of the recovered doc, the headings were a mess.

Sigh, I don’t know about the new site. Basically, I’m old and I have a brain injury, but my writing was going very well… until…

Did you save as .doc or as .odt?

I always save images at final size and resolution and Insert - Image to add it to my document. If you paste images, they will be saved as .PNG which could dramatically increase file size.
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You can turn off display of images to reduce resource requirements

Thanks. I’m pretty worried. I saved .odt
That’s good to know about paste, are you saying the images could be saved in ODT? How do you chose the save… can I save ODT after pasting
or, how do I avoid pasting?

Right now I can’t get into anything… like my 450 page manuscript