Issue 2208

Summary: Crash when opening large Word document
Product: Writer Reporter: Unknown <non-migrated>
Component: codeAssignee: michael.ruess
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE QA Contact: issues@sw <issues>
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: 638   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 98   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Description Unknown 2001-11-14 23:48:58 UTC
OpenOffice crashes when opening a 12.3 Mb Word 2000 document
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-11-19 18:25:42 UTC
We can't evaluate anything without this document. Please follow these steps before attaching 
it (or mailing it directly to Michael:

 - Re-save it (with the fast-save feature of Word switched off because it increases the size)
 - Delete big graphics (assure that the crash still "works")
 - Cut to a size that still crashes:
   1. Copy the doc
   2. Delete the first half, save it
   3. Undo, delete the second half, save under another name
   4. Check which wich one crashes
   5. Repeat 1-4 a few times until the size gets realistic
 - Zip it

In most cases this works well. The size of a document itself is hardly ever the problem unless 
you run out of swap space and RAM. It must be "something" within the document.

Reassigned to Michael.
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2001-11-20 12:52:44 UTC
We need the document to reproduce the crash. A crash is NOT because of
a certain filesize. It is something special inside the document.So
please attach it to the issue or send it directly to me. The shorter,
the better.
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2002-11-07 12:54:18 UTC
No response for almost one year... => closed.