2009/8/31 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org>: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:07, Gabriel Eirea<gei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/8/14 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org>: >>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 23:16, Sascha >>> Silbe<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:32:08PM -0300, Gabriel Eirea wrote: >>>> >>>>> 2) She saves Write documents in the pendrive, then she opens them at >>>>> home with KUbuntu and OpenOffice, then she saves the modified document >>>>> in the pendrive and tries to open it in the XO with Write. She claims >>>>> she can't open it even if the document was not modified. >>>> >>>> To me this sounds like OpenOffice is saving a later version of the >>>> OpenDocument (ODT) format than Write understands (similar to Microsoft Word >>>> 95 not being able to read documents that have been written by Microsoft >>>> Word >>>> 97). In that case, there may be a way to tell Open Office to save in the >>>> older ODT version, so that Write can still read it. >>>> I hope someone else more proficient with Write (Abiword) and OpenOffice >>>> will >>>> either confirm or disprove my suspicion. >>> >>> Yes, would be awesome to get those files and see in which format are. >> >> Well, finally I got some files to analyze the problem. Recalling the >> problem: the kids save a Write entry, the teacher moves the files from >> the journal to a pendrive, opens them in Ubuntu with OpenOffice, >> modifies them, saves them back again in the pendrive and moves them >> back to the journal in the kid's XO. But then when they try to open it >> in Write they see a blank page. Same thing if she saves from >> OpenOffice in pdf and tries to open it in the XO from the journal. >> >> Please find attached a compressed file with four examples. > > Thanks a lot, these files are the ones from the XO or have been > already opened in OpenOffice?
They have already been opened in OpenOffice, modified and saved again. > Seems like the formats of those files are ok and I was able to open on > a XO with the 802 image, also after editing them in OpenOffice in > Fedora. > > What I have seen during this test that could explain the confusion is > that if you change the files from the usb stick on non-Sugar, the > internal database on the stick is not updated. > > This means that when you plug next the stick on the XO, you will see > the "ghost" entries associated to the old files plus some new entries > associated to the new files. If the user tries to copy the ghost > entries instead of the real ones (which look mostly the same) then I > can see how this problem would arise. > > To verify this hypothesis, please tell the teacher to delete the > folder named .olpc.store in Ubuntu, before placing the usb stick back > on the XO. This will remove the ghost entries. This may explain the problem, I will ask her to try deleting the folder. I believe you said before that this problem no longer exists in 0.84? > Thanks a lot, > > Tomeu Thank you for being there. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel