I have an object that was created many versions ago but now I am unable to edit the object. I receive the following message in an error dialog box: Error activating object.at C:/cygwin64/home/buildslave/source/libo-core/embeddedobj/source/msole/oleembed.cxx897
Current version:24.2.5 (X86_64)
Any help will be appreciated.
If you use an EOL version - then why not the one with most bugfixes, that was 24.2.7?
But it’s completely unclear what is your problem - you didn’t mention your OS (it’s clear it’s some flavor of Windows), which object was that, what changed when the problem began…
File extension is rather weird. Is it some sort of C++ source? In this case, why do you open it with LO? Would not a simple text editor be the adapted tool?
@ajlittoz This is the error message, showing the source code which thrown the exception, not the opened object.
Sorry for not responding, your reply was dropped in my junk folder. My OS is win11 24H2. This is a text file created many years ago that is used to hold long identifiers i.e. card numbers, car vin number etc. I don’t remember what it was created in - probably Notepad.
This file was dropped into a LibreOffice spreadsheet as an object because the spreadsheet also contained information that was more suited to that format. Up til now I have been able to select the object and edit it with no problem.
I 'm waiting for the LibreOffice update to download and install but didn’t want you to think I was ignoring you.
Given the nature of the data (involving “card numbers”), I assume it’s impossible for you to provide the document for inspection. However, note that without a reproducer, any bug may stay unresolved indefinitely long.
By the way, you didn’t answer the “what changed when the problem began” part. E.g., it could be a Windows update, that somehow broke the external COM server that used to handle your OLE object; or maybe you could even remove that program from your system yourself.
Maybe it is a Wordpad file; Wordpad was removed in that Windows update, see Deprecated features in the Windows client | Microsoft Learn
If you have a computer with an older version I think you can copy the Wordpad program file across
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But the question is tagged “writer”.
Thanks to everyone who replied. Rather than going on a snipe hunt for which update caused the problem I’ll just recreate in another form that doesn’t involve an object.
Thanks again.