LibreOffice 3.5 (English version) ‘Writer’ (I presume.)
Operating system…(English) Microsoft
For the past two-four weeks or so (indeed, including a spell around May 2013 also) I’ve been encountering what can surely only be various ‘gremlins’ (computer viruses/bugs/scam-artists’/hackers’ handiwork) in my LibreOffice ‘system’…causing me endless frustration, wasted hours and effort etc etc etc…
The ‘messages’ (in response to my numerous and at times rather creative attempts to access my various LO documents - extremely important to this lay/freelance writer/blogger) are ‘bamfoozling’ and ‘boondoggling’ (to be mild about it), and have included such ‘advice’ as ‘the (my particular) file (in question) is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened…[possibly] the result of document manipulation or of structural damage due to data transmission’…and, so. apparently, ‘execution of macros is disabled for this document’, and is, otherwise, simply ‘locked for editing’; occasionally, offering me (later on) the options of read-only ‘opening’ of said document/s.
Alternatively I am informed that ‘Either another instance of LO is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked’, with warnings that 'Simultaneous access can lead to inconsistencies (in such settings) and advice that I should ‘make sure user closes LO on host’ (sic).
Hey, what the heck am I to do, apart from pulling out every remaining hair (on my head and beard)?
Every time I’ve (inevitably unsuccessfully) sought to retrieve said documents via ‘opening’ my documents in my various system files, I’ve subsequently/immediately encountered numerous ‘lock.doc’ versions of each original document. Indeed, a little while ago (on Easter Monday) I even discovered that each time I re-accessed all manner of other files in ‘My Documents’ (even just ‘simple’ jpeg photos), essentially for each and every such re-accessed document an additional ‘lock.doc’ version of such was/is created…!!! (Obviously one can only assume my very system itself has some kind of self-replicating bug/virus contaminating ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING I seek to re-access…
HELP ME PLEASE…I’m rapidly approaching a breakdown I believe…
Yours Sincerely
David
P.S. Am a little confused now as to which of my (two, marginally variant) passwords for your site is now the one for me to use, as, through my typical technical inexpertise, I’ve just before had to ‘rework’ that pw to get back onto your site just now, and yet my original password still appears at the top of this ‘entry page’.