Imagine you log on to the computer using the username "UserName". Now LibreOffice encounters an error and crashes. Then, on the next start, LO would run the document recovery (that would work in this case). But if you logged off (before re-starting LO) and logged on again using another spelling of the username (e.g. "username") LO would also start the document recovery on launch. But now, an error message appears saying that another user had already opened the file. All attempts to recover the file will fail until you re-logged in using the same spelling of the username as you used when LO crashed.
Which Windows version?
We experienced this on Windows Server 2003 x64.
Set back to UNCONFIRMED because this bug report has not been confirmed independently. Thank you for your understanding. Best regards. JBF
Not a Bug. If you log with different names you are different users, the computer knows nothing about you, it know only the name of the session and the configuration attached to this session. Best regards. JBF
No, JBF, you are wrong. The case is *NOT* that you have to login with different usernames, but with different *SPELLING* of the *SAME* username. In Linux environments you are right, that usernames are case sensitive so that "UserName" and "username" are different users. In Windows, usernames are case-in-sensitive and "UserName", "username" and "USERNAME" is always the same user with always the same configuration. And thats why LO correctly tries to recover files that crashed in a previous session - but always fails, if the name is spelled another way.
From what I can see this was never confirmed by QA team - moving to UNCONFIRMED to get their confirmation.
Clarify problem in Summary
Cannot reproduce as described.
(In reply to a07cd040897db54e103c from comment #0) > Imagine you log on to the computer using the username "UserName". Now > LibreOffice encounters an error and crashes. Then, on the next start, LO > would run the document recovery (that would work in this case). Full repro steps: - Log on with your username as lower case (e.g. "tinnedbeef") - (To simulate crashing) Open a file for editing, then kill the LibreOffice process. - Log-off - Log back on with CamelCase in your username (e.g. "TinnedBeef") - Open LibreOffice. RESULT: An error message appears saying that another user had already opened the file. All attempts to recover the file will fail. EXPECTED: LO will start the document recovery on launch. WORKAROUND: Log back in using the same character-case in the username as was used when LO crashed.
Robinson, are you confirming the bug yourself (in this case status should be NEW) of did you just write a better reproducibility steps list?
(In reply to tommy27 from comment #10) > Robinson, are you confirming the bug yourself (in this case status should be > NEW) of did you just write a better reproducibility steps list? I don't have Win here to confirm. Just clarifying steps for repro.
No problem with Win 7 Pro 64-bit, LibO 4.4 RC2 I used this registry patch to be able to enter my username: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61650-log-user-name-password.html Windows server 2003 is going EOL in July 2015: http://www.microsoft.com/server-cloud/ To original reporter: is this still a problem for you and will it be a problem (have you already started moving away from Win server 2003)?
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tested again in LO 5.1.5.2; bug is not reproducible anymore; WORKSFORME