Dale:
I really don't know what's causing the crash/lockup problem (memory or
disk activity) with OOO3. I can say that the frequent program crashes
come without any warning; that is, OOO seems generally to be doing fine,
no significant slowdown, followed by a total crash, the OSX message
about an application crash, and the aforementioned inability to actually
close soffice. I often have mulitple programs running, including
Thunderbird, Firefox, and some of the OSX apps (addressbook, iCal).
Like I said, I haven't investigated the issue because I'm happy using
the NeoOffice implementation of the OOO software. You're right,
something has clearly gone wrong. The behavior on the Mac OOO version
is way too reminicsent of M$ software behavior (locking up, slowing
down, inexplicable crashes) for me to mess with it. That's one of the
reasons I switched to a Mac to begin with. The need to use the power
button to force a shutdown is especially disturbing. I highly recommend
NeoOffice for people using Macs (it's free, donations appreciated) and
it looks like you'd expect OOO to look and runs without all these issues.
-Michael
On 12/7/08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running OpenOffice 3.0.0 (build 9358) under OS X 10.4.11 on an old
PowerBook (867 MHz/ 640 MB). Although I find the program sluggish at
times, I haven't had anything like the problems discussed below. I do
find it necessary to shut down Oo by hand when shutting down the
computer.
A minor "tune-up" (running the daily, weekly, and monthly
maintenance programs and DiskWarrior) seemed to help quite a bit. I
also try to keep the number of programs that are active lower when Oo
is running, and occasionally stop and restart the browser. Safari in
particular seems to slow down over time, and shutting it down and
restarting it seems a good idea,
Something has clearly gone wrong, as the machine described below
has a lot more horsepower than mine.
Is the probram choking on memorym CPU or disk activity? (Have a
peek with Activity Monitor).
Dale
On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:02, Michael Reich wrote:
I also have encountered similar problems with 3.0 on my MacBook
running OSX 10.4.11. I've used NeoOffice for a couple years instead
of the X11 version of OOO, and I tried OOO Ver.3, but have pretty much
abandoned it. I experienced fairly frequent crashes in addition to
the symptoms you described. The worst part of the crashes is that OOO
never completely shuts down, even after attempting to Force Quit using
Finder. It still remains in the Dock and the only way I have found to
get rid of it is to reboot. Even rebooting is a problem, because
Finder still can't gracefully shut down soffice. The only solution
I've found is to hit the power button force shutdown.
I've never had such severe issues with NeoOffice, so I see no reason
(nor do I have the time or energy) to struggle with OOO Ver. 3.
On 12/6/08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject:
Problems running 3.0.0 on Mac
From:
"Maggie Koerth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:32:31 -0600
To:
users@openoffice.org
I recently replaced the X11 Mac version with 3.0.0 and it's been
horrid for
me since day 1. The program operates like molasses half the time, like
delayed typing and having to wait for things to execute for a few seconds
after I make the command. Then there's the freezing. The thing has
frozen on
me two or three times this month alone. It's really frustrating and I
don't
know any other Mac users who are having these kind of problems with
3.0.0.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any suggestions for getting better
performance out of it? Should I uninstall and reinstall?
For the record, I'm using a MacBook 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1 GB
667 MHz
DDR2 SDRAM and running OSX version 10.4.11.
Any thoughts and help would be appreciated. Particularly if you can
keep it
dumbed down. You can assume my computer knowledge is only about a step or
two above that of your mom. :)
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