On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:20:08 -0800
cor ses <[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears the other guy didn't even comprehend my email--I DID REGISTER.
> But what's the point if there's no way to post a question?

You didn't inform Hagar of your registration name, so it wasn't possible to 
check if you had activated the account; non-activation is possibly a reason why 
you cannot post a question.

> *HOW DO WE POST A QUESTION* after we've logged in (as I wasted time doing
> and searched EVERYWHERE IN THE FORUM)?
> 
> It seems each year OO collapses more easily.
> If i paste even more than 1 screenshot, i'm never sure if it will save or
> freeze up.
> That's tough.
> I'm using Windows 10 and the newest OO and the McAfee that comes with a
> computer.

It can happen that the OpenOffice user profile becomes corrupt, which can cause 
instability.  The cure for this is to delete or rename the old user profile; OO 
will then generate a new profile on next startup.

Details of the User Profile for various operating systems
are given in

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74&t=12426

If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File
Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer
Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a
good choice. Start OpenOffice.

If that does not improve stability, start Windows in Safe Mode.  If OO runs 
stable in Windows safe mode the culprit is some program or driver that runs in 
Windows normal mode, which program or driver is interfering with OpenOffice. 
Common culprits are Skype, Anti virus, continuous backup programs and utilities 
which monitor the Clipboard.  To locate the culprit needs systematic detective 
work on the affected computer.

> 
> Also I've had docs I AM SURE I SAVED PROPERLY turn into # the next time i
> open them.

If one is over-hasty in powering down or sleeping the computer after OO has 
been closed, this interrupts OO's internal housekeeping and causes file 
corruption.  One should go through the operating system's power down procedure 
and wait some few extra seconds for the software/hardware data buffers to 
flush.  Hardware databuffers are in the hard disk drives - if power is removed 
from these (by computer power down), such data may not be written to disk, 
hence the #### display of the blank area prepared for, but not used by, the 
data.

> I read your answers when I Googled solutions but it was meaningless
> gibberish--total waste of time along with being frazzling. I wouldn't
> expect you to know ANY of the terms used in my fields of expertise.

If I needed to know such terms I'd find out.

> 
> Sure would appreciate knowing how to rectify these w/o having to become an
> expert in YOUR tech area.
> 
> Thank you for any help that really HELPS.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Forum administration <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry, this is an address for issues with the forum software.
> > Either post a message in the forum after registering or use the user
> > mailing list: [email protected] (note that you need to register
> > also to the list if you want to get all the replies. See:
> > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Hagar
> > Admin team
> >
> > Le 30/01/2017 à 22:32, cor ses a écrit :
> >
> >> When I googled my problem with oo writer, it didnt' show answers I needed
> >> so I wasted time registering in Open Office.
> >>
> >> Then I wasted time searching circuitously for a way to enter a post
> >> but found nothing.
> >>
> >> So trust this at least gets a human.
> >>
> >> I read replies equal to ostrich reactions that thousands of people were
> >> NOT having the problem someone posted.
> >> What hubris. Of COURSE we were. We simply had lost SOmuch due TO the
> >> problem that we didn't have time to also waste in a forum getting belittled
> >> AND the circuitous answer that was gobbly-gook tech--of no help anyway.
> >>
> >> FYI: I have for YEARS had docs freeze. I've also had docs properly saved
> >> that next opened as only #.
> >> I've noted that "usually" docs don't freeze unless normal typing also
> >> includes a few screenshots pasted in.
> >> HOW
> >> IS
> >> ANYONE
> >> To
> >> WORK
> >> ON
> >> A
> >> Doc
> >> Thus?
> >>
> >> I open a doc with screenshots and do one word change and try to save and
> >> it already freezes.  _ _ _ _ !
> >>
> >
> >


-- 
Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>

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