opening a odt file. Trying to exchange some characters. Takes very long time, blows up size of file by a factor of 3 or so. I cannot add the original file here because of copyright. So please tell me where to send. Saving the original file being less than 1MB took about 40s. Saving the changed file then being about 3 MB took about 2.5 minutes. This is way too much in my opinion. I cannot work with those huge delays in work flow. Which LO version should I use instead? Is there something corrupt with those files? How to solve that? Best, Dr. Matthias Weisser
system is Win 7 64bit 16GB RAM. This should be fast enough to be able to exchange just one character much faster and also storing the result much faster. There is lack of performance here to see. There must be a reason for this. Please help. Its not a solution using a global document with just 3 MB file size. LO should be able handling those 3MB without making such trouble !
(In reply to Dr. Matthias Weisser from comment #1) > system is Win 7 64bit MS is currently dropping Windows 10, so, win7 ... :/ od you have a chance to try a linux distribution ? it would provide a much recent LO.
I tried LO 25.2.7.2. X86-64. The performance is worse. Loading the odt file which is less than 1 MB and then trying to exchange e by a takes more than about 7.5 minutes and still no end to see. Usage of memory 2.53GB of 16GB installed. CPU load 12%. Then showing "Keine Rückmeldung". Im am sorry but this is very very very poor behaviour. Seems to be that newer versions are worse than older ones. I had seen this also with other files. So which version would now be best to try next?
LO 25.2.7.2. is the now preferred LO for download if a stable version is wished to get. So which better version should I try?
Maybe some network driver in relation with the file.
Be aware, LibreOffice deprecated Win7 sp1, Win8 and Win8.1 at the 25.2 release (and there are issues); and dropped support at 25.8 25.2.7.2 is at end of life, and the end of use on your Windows 7 system. At this point you would need contracted support and custom build to affect any change for your Windows 7 system. Meanwhile, if doing simple character swaps, the ODF Text document is a Zip archive container and the text content for the document is held in an XML file name "content.xml" Simply make a backup copy and open the archive (use a utility 7-Zip, WinRaR, etc. bcz you'll want to write any changes back) and use a text editor (i.e. notepad or vim, *not* wordpad) to edit "content.xml" and change the characters. Save changes, and write back into the archive. Should be a few seconds effort. Beyond that, we are unable to assist and IMHO this issue should be closed invalid.