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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by Larry Chernoff <ca...@gmail.com> on 2026/06/19 15:36:33 UTC
Major bug
I need to contact someone with technical knowledge regarding something that
happened to Open Office.
Been using it for many many years, no problem but for some reason just a
couple of months ago *ALL* my previously saved documents have been
affected. My text documents had a screen shot (picture) related to the
text I previously wrote but now when I bring up any previously saved
document the screen shot (picture) is just a blank square, no picture!
When tried pasting a screen shot to my email, my spreadsheets or my
messenger the picture does appear but it will not appear in OpenOffice Text
document.
All my years of documents are now useless without the picture.
What has happened???
Larry
Re: Major bug
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:13:38 -0000
Dick Groskamp <di...@apache.org> wrote:
> Looks like either text documents, or pictures, are somehow moved somewhere else.
>
> AOO uses links to files to let them show in documents, unless you have embedded them specifically.
> Pictures (or documents) not being on their place of origin breaks the link to the document.
>
There is a setting in /Tools /Options /OpenOffice Writer : View, Display to show or not show Graphics and Objects. If this is unchecked, only placeholders (empty boxes) are shown for the pictures.
It has been known for this setting to become changed in upgrades of OpenOffice; if pictures are not being shown in all your files, then that change might have happened.
There is also an intermittent bug in OpenOffice, whereby on Saving a file pictures are lost (irretrievably); LibreOffice spent a large sum to have this bug fixed - from memory €44,000. That bug if it manifests itself would only apply to individual files.
Rory
> On 2026/06/19 15:36:33 Larry Chernoff wrote:
> > I need to contact someone with technical knowledge regarding something that
> > happened to Open Office.
> >
> > Been using it for many many years, no problem but for some reason just a
> > couple of months ago *ALL* my previously saved documents have been
> > affected. My text documents had a screen shot (picture) related to the
> > text I previously wrote but now when I bring up any previously saved
> > document the screen shot (picture) is just a blank square, no picture!
> > When tried pasting a screen shot to my email, my spreadsheets or my
> > messenger the picture does appear but it will not appear in OpenOffice Text
> > document.
> >
> > All my years of documents are now useless without the picture.
> > What has happened???
> >
> > Larry
> >
>
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Re: Major bug
Posted by Dick Groskamp <di...@apache.org>.
Looks like either text documents, or pictures, are somehow moved somewhere else.
AOO uses links to files to let them show in documents, unless you have embedded them specifically.
Pictures (or documents) not being on their place of origin breaks the link to the document.
On 2026/06/19 15:36:33 Larry Chernoff wrote:
> I need to contact someone with technical knowledge regarding something that
> happened to Open Office.
>
> Been using it for many many years, no problem but for some reason just a
> couple of months ago *ALL* my previously saved documents have been
> affected. My text documents had a screen shot (picture) related to the
> text I previously wrote but now when I bring up any previously saved
> document the screen shot (picture) is just a blank square, no picture!
> When tried pasting a screen shot to my email, my spreadsheets or my
> messenger the picture does appear but it will not appear in OpenOffice Text
> document.
>
> All my years of documents are now useless without the picture.
> What has happened???
>
> Larry
>
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