How to downgrade from 4.0.2. to 3.6.6

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#21

Hi :slight_smile:
Congrats on fixing it! Now you see why it's so difficult to pin-down what the problem is.

Microsoft have every Tuesday as "Patch Tuesday".  I think they copied the idea from Symantec (Norton) a few years ago.  Symantec use Thursdays.  It makes it easier and more predictable for Sys.Admins rather than being completely unpredictable.  Patches and updates do sometimes break things so it's nice to know when they are going to happen.  Obviously if there is a really serious threat that they develop a patch for they sometimes release it asap rather than waiting but for the most part they stick to holding patches back until the next Tuesday.

I suspect it's more to do with rebooting, or perhaps just restarting just LO after turning off the auto back-ups. 
Anyway, congrats and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#22

Microsoft have every Tuesday as "Patch Tuesday".

No: only the second Tuesday in each month is Patch Tuesday. (Otherwise they would be called "Tuesday"!)

Obviously if there is a really serious threat that they develop a patch for they sometimes release it asap rather than waiting ...

The update to some versions of Windows yesterday (er, that was Tuesday but not Patch Tuesday) was to replace one that was issued two weeks earlier (on Patch Tuesday - are you following?) but was withdrawn two days later when it was found to be defective. Hence the current out-of-band publication.

... but for the most part they stick to holding patches back until the next Tuesday.

Er, the next *Patch* Tuesday.

I suspect it's more to do with rebooting, ...

Exactly so.

Brian Barker

#23

Do you think it should be in the manual as it seems to have been around since 2.4, I am sure it would help a lot of people to know.
Steve

#24

Hi :slight_smile:
It's not as straight-forwards as that.

In 99% (probably a lot more) of times you have the auto-backup feature on you get no problems.  I have passed the idea on to the Docs Team though.

Regards from

Tom :slight_smile:

#25

Bill,

If you can't find your issue--please open a bug report against UI. "LO Draw
object pasted into Writer document is not retained, auto-save issue?" And
provide full details about OS and LibreOffice version and the file formats
your are working in. Provide exact steps to reproduce using Draw and
Writer. And even to avoid with auto-save turned off. Also, post up some
sample documents.

Here is a more complete FDO Bugzilla query to look at existing issues, as
you can see handling of pictures and drawings (previews and OLE objects
included) is an ongoing challenge for development and QA:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=PLEASETEST&component=Writer&product=LibreOffice&query_format=advanced&short_desc=drawing%20drawings%20picture%20pictures&short_desc_type=anywordssubstr&order=bug_id&query_based_on=

Stuart