Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 2079
OO 638 barfs on large word files
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
I have a book on my hard disk in Word 97 -- about 60,000 words (~460kb) in one long file. Individual chapters (about 6,000 words) load without trouble into OO; but when I tried to load the whole long file in there was a dialogue asking whether I wanted to update all URLs (I don't think there are any, though there may be some in footnotes) followed by one page being loaded with nothing in it except a comment field. Subsequent attempts gave me a crash (Open Office has generated errors and will be closed by windows). If it helps, I can send you the file and the Dr Watson log. The next test would have been to try printing the whole thing out. Word couldn't manage that, so it would have been impressive if OO could.
Please attach the file. The log is not needed. Reassigned to Miachael.
I have now uploaded the file to the URL above. It has footnotes and some comments, but no illustrations. In the same directory there is a word file consisting of a multi-page table which also causes problems. (www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/big_table.doc) This one loads OK, but OO638c crashes gracefully when the file is unloaded, with an error message saying the documents are probably recoverable. I am testing on a machine with 256 Mb of RAM and acres of disk space,
I cannot see any crash. Not when loading, not when closing the bug. Are you sure, that you sent the correct URL?
I have refined this. It was partly my fault. The first problem was that I would get a dialogue box asking if I wanted to update all links in the file. Answering "yes" would give me a one-page document, with the remaining 146 poages disappearing. That was the symptom I had the first time. However it did not crash. Answering "No" would give me the whole document, butI would be unable to edit it. OO claimed it was read only. I oped the file in Word and found the problem. The document I sent was compound, containing several {includefile} fields. I had entirely forgotten this in the three years since I printed it out and sent it off to a publisher. In the meantime,. I moved it to an archive folder, which broke the links to the included files. So neither Word nor OO could edit it. It is impressive that OO was able to make as good a shot as it did at opening the file. So I will mark this as solved. Perhaps, though, as an interface issue, it would be helpful if the "uppdate links" dialog had an option to list the ninks that need updating? This is a low priority. But it would have helped me to see what the problem was.
Closed.