libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving

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#1

Opensuse 12,3
both KDE 4.12 (but also occurred with 4.11)
and Gnome 3.6.2
Libreoffice 4.1.4.2 (also occured with 4.1.3)

This problem does not occur in Kubuntu 13.1, Xubuntu 12.04 , or Windows XP with the same version of Libreoffice. It seems to be specific to Opensuse.

If a file is created in writer or calc, but not saved and thereby given a file name, then at the end of the period set in Tools-Option-Load/Save-General for saving autorecovery information (and optionally the document itself), libreoffice saves, and then keeps on saving every 5-10 seconds, with the result that the ~/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/user/backup/ directory builds up a series of untitled -n.odt files.

Sometimes, and in particular when both calc and writer are open with untitled files, the saving becomes so frequent that the program is unmanageable and has to be killed.

I have tested this with libreoffice on opensuse 12.3 in both KDE and Gnome (separate machines) and confirmed that it happens consistently with both. However, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Windows XP do not have this problem.

Can anyone else confirm this behaviour?

John

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
It might be worth contacting the openSuSE forums to ask in there,
http://forums.opensuse.org/
errr, right now their forums are down for maintenance but will
probably be up by the time you read this. Jic it isn't this wiki
might be more help
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels

I guess you probably already asked the same question there somewhere.
Also it might be worth posting a bug-report in the oepnSuSE
bug-tracker regardless of whether you get any replies or not.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
It might be worth contacting the openSuSE forums to ask in there,
http://forums.opensuse.org/
errr, right now their forums are down for maintenance but will
probably be up by the time you read this. Jic it isn't this wiki
might be more help
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels

I guess you probably already asked the same question there somewhere.
Also it might be worth posting a bug-report in the oepnSuSE
bug-tracker regardless of whether you get any replies or not.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

I have now located a bug report on this issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46635

It applies to other distributions besides opensuse. Essentially, if the option in

Tools-Option-Load/Save-General

is set to 'Automatically save the document too', then untitled/unnamed files will go into a save loop every few seconds.

I have submitted a confirmation of the bug report, but cannot at the moment test it out on any version of Windows. Could anyone else check this and update the bug report?

John

#4

As a quick test on my current computer (Windows 7 64Bit, LO 4.1.4.2) I did
this:
- Set autosave to 1 minute
- Check the "save document too" option
- Open a new writer document
- Type a few words​​
- Wait a minute. It created an untitled_1.odt file in the backup directory,
and nothing else
- Typed a few more words
- After a while, the backup file updated. No extra files where created, and
LO doesn't seem to go crazy with I/O either.

However I'm not sure that this specific bug report is related. I'll add
these informations nonetheless.

#5

Additionnaly, how did you install LibreOffice on your system? Did you use
some distribution-specific repositories, or got it from the Libreoffice
website ? Maybe there is something opensuse-specific that cause this. If it
doesn't happen with the version downloaded from the website, you'll have to
report this issue to the Opensuse folks.

#6

I have an OpenSUSE 12.3 system too, here's some version info.
(last patches/updates are installed)

I could not reproduce the bug.

luuk@opensuse:~/temp> cat /etc/os-release
NAME=openSUSE
VERSION="12.3 (Dartmouth)"
VERSION_ID="12.3"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 12.3 (Dartmouth) (x86_64)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3"

luuk@opensuse:~/temp> ooffice --version
LibreOffice 3.6

luuk@opensuse:~/temp> zypper info libreoffice | grep -i version
Version: 3.6.3.2.4-2.4.1

#7

Thanks for trying.
I notice you are using LO 3.6.3.2.
I didn't have a problem with the 3.6 series either, nor with the 4.0 series. The problem started after the updates to the 4.1. series from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_12.3/

John

#8

I've now done further tests with the distributions I have easy access to.
First of all, a correction. When I originally reported this, I thought it was restricted to opensuse. I have since found the same problem arises on Kubuntu and Xubuntu with the 4.1 series of Libreoffice, as I have documented in the bug report on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46635

In the case of both the ubuntu-based distributions and opensuse KDE and Gnome, Libreoffice was installed from the distribution repositories (as recommended on the Libreoffice web site). In all these cases, ticking
Tools-Option-Load/Save-General-Automatically save the document too

results in the constant saving.

However, in Kubuntu and Opensuse 12.3 - Gnome, I deinstalled the repository provided version and installed the versions from the Libreoffice website to see if there was any difference. Libreoffice was run with completely new profiles, and on first run worked fine, not showing any constant saving. However, after logging out and logging in and rerunning the test, the same constant saving occurred on every subsequent occasion, so it doesn't seem to be repository version specific.

John

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
So i suspect the only work-around at the moment is to go back to the
4.0.6 for the main production machine and maybe test-drive the 4.1.x
or 4.2.x every once in a while.

I tend to switch auto-save and anything like that off and then just
kick myself if i forget to save often enough.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

The same has happened to me.

I activated the toolbar for the "Logo" program. In it's command box I writed the expression 'PRINT SQRT 100'; that does not work. I cleaned the page pressing the blank page icon and closed the toolbar.

Inmediately, the software started to blink similarly as trying to save something, but does not blocked its close. It didn't crash.

After that I was able to create a new page and activate and close the logo toolbar, whitout any problem.

#11

Hi :slight_smile:
I have just started using Inkscape for generating logos or making them
easier to scale. Of course MS Office 2010 can't seem to handle svg
(or maybe it's just Publisher) but LibreOffice can. So i am hoping to
move my company's (well, my bosses bosses company) leaflets and flyers
to Draw or Scribus one of these days.

Inkscape takes quite a lot of getting used to!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: