[Feature request] Allow typing when saving file

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#1

Dear all:
I have some "big" *.odt files, it contains many pictures and pages.
When I press Ctrl+S to save the file (or When LibreOffice executing auto
saving), Writer will stop accepting any keyboard input and takes 5 or more
seconds to save the file.
When I am hurry to finish some works, the "5 or more seconds" saving time
that stop my working is stressful to me.
Is it possible that LibreOffice accept typing while user saving files?
Where to post my feature request ?

Thanks,

#2

Hi,

I've never had any LibreOffice/OpenOffice files that large. I do a fair amount of work with video though, which can tax a system. Without knowing the processor speed and memory in your computer, based on how you described the file(s), I'm guessing that this may be more of a hardware limitation than it is a LibreOffice issue.

Don

#3

Although it does not help you, I just want to agree to you. This waiting time bothers me too.
Saving while typing would be really nice.

Daniel

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
I thought it still accepted input but was just very slow about showing it on-screen?  Keep typing and see if your typing appears rapidly once the save has finished in a cheesy 80's film type of way. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Hi Tom,

thank's for your answer!
I tried typing during the auto-save process but my typing did not appear after the process was done. It was simply ignored (LO 3.4.5).

Daniel :slight_smile:

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Thanks for trying it.  I'm really sorry it didn't work.  Perhaps post as a feature request?
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
Ouch, sorry for the double-post!

It suddenly occurred to me that you might be able to reduce file-size in some way.  Perhaps link to pictures rather than embedding them?  Also if memory is an issue as Don hinted then perhaps increasing the values in

Tools - Options - Memory

might help?  It's unlikely to hurt to try.  On most machines i tend to save the document to internal hard-drive and then move it onto the network after i have completed my work or when i need to share it. 
Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#8

Hi~Tom and Daniel:
I set the cache to 256MB (Tools - Options - Memory), but the saving time
did not change, and Writer still did not accepting any keyboard input
during saving the file.
Maybe my machine is really too old?
(CPU type : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz with 2G DDR2-ram)

I am ready to post a feature request.
But Tom said: "Ouch, sorry for the double-post!"
Does Tom mean "I have already posted the request"?

Thank you~ :slight_smile:

#9

Hi,

I think that Tom was thinking he made a double post, not you. Do you know anyone who has a newer computer with a faster processor and more memory that you could run your files on to see if there is any difference between theirs and yours? Then we would know if it is a hardware issue with the computer, or a LibreOffice issue.

Don

#10

Hi, Don:
I do belive a newer computer would minimize the saving time, but I have no
money to buy a new one.
I think "allow typing while saving files" would be a good feature for many
old computer users.
Such feature will save our working time when using Libreoffice on old
machines, we don't need to buy new computers for the long file saving time.

Thank you :slight_smile:

#11

Hi :slight_smile:
No, i had already posted an answer to this thread.  Then i read another post which made me think of something else and then a little while later i thought of another thing.  So i made a real mess of posting too many times.

I have my cache set at 20Mb but i have also raised the "Memory per object" higher than any of the pictures or graphics in my documents.  I sometimes use Gimp to reduce the byte-wise size without losing too much quality.  Often photos from a camera are such a high resolution that they would look good on a roadside bill-board.  Scaling them down to about twice the size they are going to be in the document means they still look good
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/
http://kerryshamblin.com/index.php?page=tutorial-web-images-gimp
http://www.ahotw.com/2008/08/09/gimp-image-cropping-for-web/
This link does a lot more than i normally have time to
http://www.geekazine.com/guests/basic-gimp-preparing-pictures-for-the-web
I only usually get photos down to a couple of hundred kilobytes but logos and stuff are usually fairly easy to get down to maybe 20Kb.

Images occasionally vanish from documents so it's a good idea to keep a back-up of them outside the document.  If you save in Odt format then you can find all the images by opening the document as an archive.  (Create a copy of the file.  Rename the file-ending from .odt to .zip and then double-click on the file's icon).  So it's easy to get a folder full of the images you use before they run into trouble.

It's not clear what operating system you are using.  Xp or a Gnu&Linux such as Ubuntu?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#12

Hi,

You are most welcome. I am a farmer among other things. A 50 horsepower tractor will take twice as long to do the same amount of work as a 100 horsepower tractor. A computer processor only has so many cycles in a given time frame. If another processor had twice as many cycles, things should go twice as fast in theory. It would be interesting to know how your file would work on a newer machine.

Don