Bug 151911 - Writer crash when moving table column, work not saved when program said it would be
Summary: Writer crash when moving table column, work not saved when program said it wo...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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7.4.2.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Blocks: Writer-Tables Drag-and-Drop
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Reported: 2022-11-04 20:25 UTC by mikefreeman1972
Modified: 2023-06-05 03:13 UTC (History)
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Description mikefreeman1972 2022-11-04 20:25:38 UTC
Description:
I had created a large, multi-page table containing loads of accumulated data in Writer. I decided I needed to reorganize the columns a little, so I highlighted a column and started dragging it to the new location. Before I let go of the mouse button, the entire window disappeared, and a small window came up letting me know that the program crashed, and said that my data up to that point will now be saved. I clicked ok. Once the program came up, the entire table was gone, and many hours of work was lost. I tried reloading the file that I had been saving it to, but of course that's the one that the window I clicked ok on had saved to, which means that not only did I lose the data with the crash, but my saved backup as well. Perhaps the crash window should save to an alternate backup file instead of overwriting the working file.

Steps to Reproduce:
I haven't tried to reproduce the problem, as I've never seen this happen before doing similar tasks. I would have to completely redo hours of work to replicate the exact situation, and knowing my luck it probably won't happen next time I try.

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Reproducible: Didn't try


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Comment 1 mikefreeman1972 2022-11-04 20:28:22 UTC
Just to clarify: I did save my data (I always do, religiously). However, LibreOffice overwrote that saved file with everything except the table when the crash occurred and the crash window told me data would be saved.
Comment 2 Roman Kuznetsov 2022-11-05 12:07:41 UTC
Please write here info from LibreOffice's Help-About dialog (use Copy button there)

How many pages with the table did you create? How many columns did your table contain? Was there some nested tables in your table?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-05-05 03:24:41 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2023-06-05 03:13:55 UTC
Dear mikefreeman1972,

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