Created attachment 102645 [details] Fail message Try to choose personalized salutations and every time it fails with message shown in gif.
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Hi Toby, Thanks for the issue. I clarify the summary a bit. Any idea if this worked in older versions? (I never use the wizard for mail merg.. sorry ;) ) Cor
No sorry Cor. Never used the mail merge before in Libre either, only in Word. Toby
Fail to reproduce, tested using Linux Mint 17 x64 with LibreOffice Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 7ed283b9bcdde1ae7d858d04880115a1b5a45315
Methinks that this has more to do with the Heisenbug that has been seen on OSX with file creation in various other bug reports : (File > New), writing to external FAT disks, etc. The failure message implies that the temporary file could not be created, or rather, that it only contains 0 bytes. Now whether that is the correct message that should be thrown in such a circumstance is another question. Alex
(In reply to comment #5) > Methinks that this has more to do with the Heisenbug that has been seen on > OSX with file creation in various other bug reports : (File > New), writing > to external FAT disks, etc. > > > The failure message implies that the temporary file could not be created, or > rather, that it only contains 0 bytes. Now whether that is the correct > message that should be thrown in such a circumstance is another question. > > Alex Scratch that, it is saying it can't write the file, whether or not it contains any data, I have no idea.
@Toby : Please provide us with more details about how you are using the mailmerge wizard, including precise steps. When I start the mailmerge wizard from the Tools menu, I see five possible choices from which to start : - use active document - create a new document - use an existing document - from a template - from a recently saved document (greyed out) More details please, and a test document (including an indication of the datasource) would be handy if you have one.
No feedback since 6 months, I put it as INVALID. Toby: Don't hesitate to reopen this tracker if you can still reproduce this with recent LO version (4.3.5 or 4.4.0).