I have a Macbook Air with the M3 chip, purchased in December. My go-to for drafting is LibreOffice Draw, which I’ve used for many years. I still use it on my 10 year old Macbook Pro, on which it is very stable, seldom crashing, and doing better with recovery of files. I’ve had LibreOffice crash numerous times losing a lot of work. Why is it so unstable? What can I do, aside from saving after every change to a drawing? Is it a setting, or the M3 architecture, or Sonoma 14.3, or just my particular laptop?
MacBook 15-inch, M3, 2024, 8GB ram, OS 14.3 Sonoma
Version: 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0f794b6e29741098670a3b95d60478a65d05ef13
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 14.3; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
I renamed the user folder and restarted LO, which I had upgraded to LO 25.2.5.2 in advance. In the last couple days, I used a ton of command prompts to find and repair what turned out to 160(!!) missing files I recreated the corrupted drawing I had in a new document, by copying all the objects and placing them on the recreated new layers in the new document, but the drawing scale doesn’t match the original drawing, though the objects are the same size on the page. Trying to figure it out by comparing the objects to the rulers caused a crash, or rather the crash happened when I was trying to change the drawing scale back to 1:1 after trying 1:16 and 1:10. Otherwise, I’ve never been able to discern a pattern for the crashes. So, it crashed despite a clean user profile, and a clean, uncorrupted document, which document is now corrupted, no doubt.
The operating system handles file management. I would guess that the the SSD/HDD is failing