Description: "Remove personal information on saving" (Prefs/LibreOffice/Security/Options) works with MS .docx documents, but not .doc documents. This File/Properties/General/Reset Properties feature also has this problem. In some cases saving a .doc document to .docx and then back to .doc will set the fake date and time (not yet fully characterized). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set Security option to "Remove personal information on saving". 2. Set "Track Changes" to "Record". 3. Make changes and/or add comments. 4. Save the file. 5. View dates and times of changes or comments. Actual Results: The original dates and times are not replaced with 01/01/1970 00:00:00. Expected Results: The original dates and times should be replaced with 01/01/1970 00:00:00. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Remove personal information on saving Select to always remove user data from file properties, comments and tracked changes. The names of authors in comments and changes will be replaced by generic values as "Author1", "Author2" and so forth. Time values will also be reset to a single standard value. If this option is not selected, you can still remove the personal information for the current document with the Reset Properties button on File - Properties - General.
Do you need more information from me? "Remove personal information on saving" works for .docx files, but not for .doc files on my system.
Tested with Version: 7.5.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: c21113d003cd3efa8c53188764377a8272d9d6de CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL threaded All peronal information is deleted. "Created" entry add the date of the last save. That's the same behaviour with odt-files. For me this is the expected result. Why should it be replaced with 01/01/1970 00:00:00? => NEEDINFO
By "personal information", I am referring specifically to the date and time attached to tracked changes and comments. I am not concerned with the "Created" date in the file properties. When "Remove Personal Information on Saving" is set in Preferences/LibreOffice/Security/Options, the date and time of changes and comments is set to 01/01/1970 00:00:00 when the document is saved as .odt or .docx . But if saved as .doc, the original date and time are displayed. So this information is not being overwritten with a fake date and time when the document is saved in .doc format. Please investigate this bug. Thank you.
I confirm it with Version: 7.5.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: c21113d003cd3efa8c53188764377a8272d9d6de CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL threaded Removing usser data doesn't work in doc-file for comments and track changes Help says: "Select to always remove user data from file properties, comments and tracked changes. The names of authors in comments and changes will be replaced by generic values as "Author1", "Author2" and so forth. " [1] [1] https://help.libreoffice.org/7.5/en-GB/text/shared/optionen/securityoptionsdialog.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=cui/ui/securityoptionsdialog/dialog-action_area1#bm_id201704161715484484
For DOCX, the removal of the name from comments and change tracking was done with LO 7.3 commit ded2452a52d21131347a0dc2e25c8161f20fcfad Author: László Németh on Fri Jun 18 13:03:17 2021 +0200 tdf#142902 DOCX export: remove personal info of comments and changes Either that needs to be replicated for DOC/RTF, or else perhaps it can be generalized for all three.
Created attachment 189148 [details] 153173_security.doc: comment and track changes contain personal info Steps to reproduce: -open document. Notice the comment has an author (and so does change tracking) -save as DOC and then DOCX and reload. Notice only DOCX changed to "author1".