LO Calc crashes

users
#1

Hi ALL

I am just a user & ardent fan of LO.

I came across a problem in LO - cant say whether its with my computer or LO. Version i have is the latest 4.1.

Spelled check in Calc & the moment opted for the suggested correction Calc crashed.

The file was recovered, tried the same thing again with the same result. did this atleast 5 - 6 times with the same result - crash & recovery with the word not getting replaced.

Hope you can suggest the shortcomings in my computer if the problem is due to this. If it is due to some shortcoming in LO request you to pls fix it.

Thanks
Kr. Shivpal Singh

#2

Kunwar Shivpal Singh wrote:

Hi ALL

I am just a user & ardent fan of LO.

I came across a problem in LO - cant say whether its with my computer or
LO. Version i have is the latest 4.1.

Spelled check in Calc & the moment opted for the suggested correction
Calc crashed.

The file was recovered, tried the same thing again with the same result.
did this atleast 5 - 6 times with the same result - crash & recovery
with the word not getting replaced.

Hope you can suggest the shortcomings in my computer if the problem is
due to this. If it is due to some shortcoming in LO request you to pls
fix it.

Thanks
Kr. Shivpal Singh

It is a known issue. Please see:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68220

Regards
Dave

#3

Please address any reply to the users@global.libreoffice.org list, not
directly to me. There are many knowledgeable subscribers to this list,
who may be able to provide better answers than myself.

My responses are given in-line with your original message.

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
LibreOffice develops so fast that by the time most other software would be releasing updates and patches LO is releasing a new version.  The next version in the same branch tends to be just bug-fixes but in the newer branch you get bug-fixes and new features (although those new features may have introduced unexpected new problems or unearthed old ones that had previously been hidden.

So although you don't get a splattering of bug-fixes, patches and security patches you do get a very much smoother of the entire program. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Thanks for putting all doubts to rest.

Shifted from MS Office to Open Office in 2010 & then a friend of mine suggested LO said better than OO.

Working on LO now since 2011 - 12. Never faced any problem till date. Few petty ones (to do with settings) which I could manage through help & minor adjustments.

Thanks.

Waiting for the next launch.

regards

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I wouldn't say that either is "best".  It entirely depends on situations and specific requirements.

Both covers the large middle ground really well but each has it's niche areas where it's marginally better than the other.

Apache OpenOffice develops more slowly so known bugs stay longer and fewer new surprises occur.  So, once you find a bug there you can be fairly sure it will be in the next several releases.  That means AOO is "more stable".  One advantage with that is that if you know a work-around for some annoyance then that keeps working too.

LO just fixes a lot of those problems but doing so might sometimes create new ones (which also then largely get fixed).  However, that does mean there might be some surprises.  To get around that LO actively develops 2 branches.  One "more stable" and the other with more new features.

In both the 3rd digit in the version number is roughly the same as the "Service Pack" number in MS software, except that we go a lot higher.

So i have most machines at work on a x.x.5 (ish) and wont install anything earlier than a x.x.3.  My own 2 work machines keep leapfrogging each other but soemtimes return to a previous version or to the one installed on the other machines.  I keep meaning to test-drive the very earliest releases of new branches but rarely do and even if i do never find any problems because i just don't need anything even vaguely advanced.

My dad now lives on a boat which is often out of range of "the internet" so i would probably give him AOO, or an LO version such as "higher than x.x.5"

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: