Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-28 Thread Wei Wang
Hi there Try to modified it and save it on SUSE machine. Then copy the file back to etch laptop. On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:15 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. > I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to > open (maybe 25 mi

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread David Fox
Ralph wrote: > Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the > contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only Well, I remember doing something similar at a previous job. I was doing quite a bit of Excel spreadsheets there, and over time this spreadshee

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the > contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only > editor, re-copy the now text-only data into a new OOo doc. (This is > crude, but assures nothing su

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/26/2007 11:02 AM, John O Laoi wrote: > > > On 9/26/07, *Ralph Katz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > Also check your disk i/o for swapping. > > > How do I do that? Little ole me looks at the disk light. :) Also, I have gkrellm installed which can sho

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also check your disk i/o for swapping. How do I do that? > > Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called > somehow. Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally > timing out. Just a guess... That i

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe it's *highly* compressed and most of the time is spent in > zlib. I've seen examples of corner cases that take forever to open. It is a file that is frequently used. I don't know how to check if it is in zlib. > I copied the file to

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/26/2007 09:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/26/07 05:15, John O Laoi wrote: >> Hello, >> I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. >> I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open >> (maybe 25 minutes). >> While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. > > No su

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 05:15, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. > I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open > (maybe 25 minutes). > While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. No surprise

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open (maybe 25 minutes). While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. It is not big. ls-l reports its size as 18,000. I have many much bigger files which open immediately. I co