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

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

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

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 surprise

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 SUSE

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 is what

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] mailto:[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 show graphically

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 surprising

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 spreadsheet