While working on my book in Writer, the pages started flipping by themselves going higher in number and couldn’t stop it. I checked and other windows open were fine. I rebooted but it didn’t help slow down Writer flipping the pages. After rebooting several times I open LO and lost all my saved documents.
And what is the question? Don’t forget to mention OS name, LO version and save format to help to isolate the issue.
<br<Edit your question, don’t add comments (or worse false “answers”) at this stage. Click on … under the description, then on the “pencil” icon: you are in edit mode.
You might care to look at this question for clues as to the behaviour, Pages keep increasing and make LibreOffice crash
While typing in Writer in my book, the pages started flipping irradicably, couldn’t stop them. tried rebooting several times, didn’t help. Once i did open LO, I lost all my saved documents. I’m using windows 11, LO version 24.8.4
This is not a solution to your problem. You were told to edit your question. If this is not possible, repost additional data as a comment under mine, then delete your “non-answer” (only you as post owner can do that).
How is it possible to “lose” existing saved documents? Are they stored in some “unusual” folder(s)?
I’m sorry I’m trying to figure what you need. As for losing my documents, when you open LO, the documents you have been working on are not there. I have to go into my Docs and reopen them. Actually when I opened Lo it was like I just installed it. It had the same window open that gave me a choice on how to save documents. Not sure what you meant by edit my question but, I 'm concerned about the same issue happening and losing what I have been working on. Question, what is the most stable version of LO? Is it always the latest? Or stick with an older version? thanks for taking your time with this.
Once again, you used an Answer to request more information. By providing false answers, you confuse visitors and risk to not get any solution (frequent contributors see on the home page that the question already has answers and will not go further).
This sit is not a forum. There is no such thing as a “conversation”. The site engine may reorder the answers according to its relevance criteria, thus creating a mess if you rely on chronological order to understand what is at stake.
From your present “non-answer”, it appears you are accustomed to the Start Center window, the one which open when you launch LO without specifying which component you want (Writer, Calc, Impress, …). What is shown here is a list of recently opened documents as cached by LO. These documents may no longer exist if you moved them or deleted them in the file browser (external to LO).
Your reboot attempts may also have erased or corrupted the cache. It does not really matter because it affects only the list of recent documents. The documents themselves are still where you saved them, in a folder like My Documents by default.
Use the file browser to locate them.
There is no “most stable version” which would imply some has received special attention from developers for maximum reliability.
The most recent version is expected to have more bugs fixed than previous ones. Unfortunately, new features also come with their own collection of bugs. That the eternal story with software. Nevertheless, “latest” release is generally better than the preceding one. Just keep updated.
That said, describe your “flipping” document. Is it a DOCX one? Does it contain tables or images in unusual locations such as header or footer? How many pages? File size? If it is an .odt, how do you format your text? I fear you practice extensive direct formatting where everything is done manually.
Yes the document is in DOCX its in book form with page numbers in the footer. I was working on the 47th page when the uncontrollable flipping started. There is no tables or images at all. I’m an author just writing a book. When the flipping started I couldn’t close the document. Had to x out of the program When I opened the office up again, it was still flipping the pages. Did that three times. Then tried rebooting.
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Why do you save your document(s) DOCX which is a proprietary non-public format? Reading and writing such documents is guess work where format properties have to be more or less accurately guessed and approximated with Writer features. Though DOCX and ODF have a common intersection, Writer is not a drop-in replacement for Word. It is based on different principles. It accepts DOCX documents to a limited extent but roundtrip is not guaranteed.
With any program, the golden rule is to always work in native format, here .odt. Saving .docx needs a translation when you open the document and another inverse translation when you save. This occurs at every session. The conversion approximations cause progressive cumulative damage to the document. What you experience is one of the problems: something is now damaged beyond repair in the document structure. There is no easy recovery.
Do you drive screw with a hammer? Always use the tool adapted to the device.
What you may try is to open the document, select everything and copy text. Close the offending file. Create a blank new document and Edit>Paste Special>Paste Unformatted Text so that all DOCX idiosyncrasies are ignored. Save as .odt. This is now your work copy.
In case you have an external constraint regarding DOCX (which is a false constraint because M$ Word can read ODF documents), File>Save a Copy in DOCX format only at the final stage of your job when the document is finalised and ready to be delivered. This minimises potential issues. And if you’re sent back a revised document, don’t work on it. Instead, incorporate the changes in your .odt original. Never paste “ordinarily”. Always paste as unformatted text.
You claim " I’m an author just writing a book". This is usually the argument stated by those who use modern applications such as Writer like a mechanical typewriter because they have not taken the time to read the Writer Guide.
Thank you very much for advice