Re: dangerous openoffice behaviour

[martin yazdzik <yazdzik nyct net>]

thank you so much for the prompt attention - 

the issue has been resolved with the new open office release, 2.3.1.

I sincerely appreciate the reply, and hope not to have inconvenienced anyone.

best wishes,

martin


On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 20:41 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> Cc'ing the OP, since he seems to not be subscribed to this list and the
> post has been moderated.
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:55 -0500, martin yazdzik wrote:
> > If I open a file on a different computer on the network, the file
> > opens, and the drop down box where is should say "default" or whatever
> > reads "preformatted text" and there is no content.
> > 
> > So far, a pain.  But, then, the file on the pc where it is located
> > becomes empty, 0 kb, so, in essence, openoffice, or vfs, or open
> > office gtk, or whatever, eats files on the network.  Now, serious and
> > urgent.
>
> Sounds like an OpenOffice issue to me. Or maybe a distro/packager issue.
>
>
> > Since I am not a programmer, I cannot tell if the problem is OO,
> > somewhere in the vfs mime id, or wherever.  Funny enough, the 2.1 OO
> > has no problems, unless I update the libgmime to 2.2.11-1, so I have a
> > feeling the problem lies in the nautilus or gnome networking or mime
> > identification, but how, I have no clue.
>
> GMime is totally unrelated. There is absolutely no way, updating
> libgmime could affect this at all. It is a library for creation and
> parsing of MIME messages (read: email).
>
>   guenther