Bug 110435 - Footnotes missing from body of all documents previously created in prior version
Summary: Footnotes missing from body of all documents previously created in prior version
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.0.3 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2017-07-30 12:55 UTC by larrybradley
Modified: 2018-03-02 10:05 UTC (History)
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Description larrybradley 2017-07-30 12:55:39 UTC
Description:
When I purged 5.3 and installed 5.4 (Linux), then opened an existing large document that previously had more than a hundred footnotes, the footnote description/explanation lines existed, but the reference numbers that should have been in the body of the document were missing entirely. Of course, one of the results is that clicking on the footnote number in the footnote description, information line (see example below) takes you nowhere instead of taking you to the corresponding superscript number in the body of the document because the superscript number no longer exists. 

Example Footnote Line: 

105 Mr. Craigmile. N. A. C. S., Seventh Annual Proceedings, 1919, p. 614. 

(This is footnote No. 105. There is no longer a corresponding, linked 105 in the body of the document).


This is a complete and utter disaster for me, as I use LO for writing and editing manuscripts, many of which have more than one hundred footnotes each, not to mention that these manuscripts drafted in LO are converted to ePub and other formats for sale by download, something that has now been rendered impossible for me to do without many weeks or months of fixing every file that was drafted using LO. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a document created in an earlier version of LO with LO 5.4.3
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Actual Results:  
All the footnote "explanation / descriptive" lines in the document were there, but they were no longer linked to their corresponding numbers in the document; in fact the corresponding numbers no longer exist.

Expected Results:
Expected both the footnote and its corresponding "reference" number in the body of the text to be intact.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is not a profile problem. Happens to all profiles on all my desktop computers.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.78 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2017-07-30 17:45:17 UTC
Please could you attach a document showing the problem?

Set status to NEEDINFO, please set it back to UNCONFIRMED once requested
informations are provided.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-01-29 10:27:01 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2018-03-02 10:05:13 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately
reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
your bug against the latest release. If the issue is still
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