Description: I'm on: Windows7 64bit // Libre Office always worked well - 2 years. I tried 7.4. It became very unstable after text and image inserts and the saving was very slow. So I went back to 7.3 and it was still very slow. The last month the .doc file save has become so slow I am looking for another software. I can't finish my book with this kind of degraded file handling. There are 103 bugs in Bugzilla re: slow saving - starting summer 2022. I cannot use .odf formats. They do not open in other office-type programs when I send the files to other people. I stick with .doc, .xls, and .ppt. [There was never any reason for .docx other than to force upgrades by Microsoft. Compliance with manipulation by MS should never have been considered.] Mozilla got $450 million from Google in 2021. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make a 25-50K document and save it to .doc on flash or hard drive. 2. 3. Actual Results: 1) Nothing happens initially. 2) After clicking a couple of times on the document, the aqua circle appears 3) The circle will sit there and the background dims. 4) It can take 20 - 120 seconds to complete the save. Expected Results: 1) Fix Office Libre so the files save quickly and efficiently in any format. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Completed a normal save. I have never established a "user profile" for this software. I have no idea why I would do that. I do not want any digital information about myself to be associated with the work I do on LibreOffice.
Hi Dimojabe Thank you for creating a report. The user profile is automatically saved, so the issue might still lie in there. Could you please reset it by using: Help > Restart in safe mode > Restart > Reset to factory settings (tick "Reset entire user profile") > Apply changes and restart. Let us know if the issue remains. Please know that resetting the user profile will reset all your customisations. More info here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Created attachment 183484 [details] SCR SHOTS-SLOW SAVING IN LIBRE OFFICE WRITER TX!! I completed the user profile factory re-set - it was easy. No customization to lose. But, it didn't solve the issue. I used to work on End User Interface projects, so I put together a couple of screenshots with the timing and error messages on the saves. Thank you for helping. I saw that The Document Foundation doesn't want us to send bugs to Bugzilla, but the option they want us to use, Redmine, has screens don't seem to show where/how to open a ticket or find an existing issue to join, And the bug reporting facility I found on the Doc Fndtn website is just a list of issues (103 regarding slow saving and hang ups) that are not addressed and no way to add my issue to any of them.
[Automated Action] NeedInfo-To-Unconfirmed
Thank you, Dimojabe. A couple more things we need: - In a comment here, pease copy and paste the information in Help > About LibreOffice. - We will need an example DOC document attached here so we can test the slow down ourselves and investigate further. Just a note about formats: DOCX can be considered an improvement over DOC by some, because it is (supposed to be) an open standard, whereas DOC is a binary file. This makes it more difficult to troubleshoot DOC files, and means we often promote the use of ODT or DOCX over DOC. Thank you!
Created attachment 183494 [details] A 150+ PAGE WRITER DOCUMENT SAVED AS .DOC Thank you so much for working on this. I started looking for another software and the first one I tried was a Chinese disaster WPS somethng. I uninstalled it but it was so invasive and had a childlike interface. * * I have attached the file I was trying to save yesterday that is 150+ pages long.* * I really appreciate the clarification on .doc vs .docx. I understand what's going on now. All I saw was that my Windows7 operating system (I keep for less surveillance) cannot open .docx - so I call that "citizen forcing" or "herding" - and whenever that happens, you know there's a creepy reason for what they are doing. In this case, I figured it was to force us to upgrade because it was the second time they did it (Vista was the first).
Created attachment 183519 [details] ABOUT LIBRE OFFICE - VERSION INFO SCREEN SHOT I missed something. You needed the About LibreOffice info. The version I have been providing information about is 7.3. I tried updating and using 7.4 but it had the exact same issues and worse. In 7.4 the entire documents would degrade when I cut and pasted text or image information into them. Weird pagination and lines would appear, footer inserts glitched - all of that in addition to the slow saving and the hang ups. So I gave up and went back to 7.3 I will upload 7.4 again if you want me too - since that is what you are probably working on. It would make more sense to fix the latest version. I have attached the ABOUT LIBRE OFFICE screen for 7.3 to this comment.
attachment 183494 [details] takes about 7 secs to open and saving (to .doc) is basically instant. Does this still happen with version 7.5? Set to NEEDINFO. Change back to UNCONFIRMED, if the problem persists. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if the problem went away. Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 1309e6332d7ff2bd1f9b6bf87385b8b570e59158 CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_FI); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
To Everyone Who Helped Me on this Ticket: I am on bended knee humbly asking for your foregiveness. It was the flash drive that failed in another month. All is well. Please close this ticket. >> AND - Make sure you get out of the big banks, lose all auto-pays and on-line transactions. The US FDIC and the BIS are starting to talk about Bailing In - taking money out of people's accounts. Cyprus did it in 2013. Italy and Lebanon are doing it now. I verified with the US FDIC and the response was that a recent piece of low quality legislation (The Dodd Frank Act) would stop it from ever happening, and in any case, it wouldn't affect people with less than the FDIC threshold $250,000. Well, almost nobody in American has $250,000 and if they did - they would never keep it in a bank.<<
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