Hi :) I generally just cancel the recovery thing anyway as it rarely works quite the way i wanted it too and as you have found just opening the document seems to recover it anyway. Since this sounds like such extremely bad advice i do make sure i adequately back-up documents in the first place. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> >To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Friday, 25 January 2013, 22:14 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working > >I don't know if this is connected with the previous problem (where the >password protection had been turned off for my LO Calc doc): > >Now when LO tries to recover documents that were open when I shut down >the computer, it's failing to recover the password protected document >rather than prompting me for the password, which it used to do. When I >open the document manually it prompts for the password and opens fine. > >Thanks. > >On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:44 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: >> Oops. I was setting the protection for "change recording state." >> Password protecting the document is on the "save as" dialogue. Seems to >> be working now. Must have gotten unset somehow, though that presumably >> would have required my using 'save as' to save the document and >> unchecking the password box. >> >> Whatever. >> >> Thanks. >> EB >> >> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 17:29 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: >> > Hi :) >> > Ouch! I wasn't expecting that! Can you push the unprotect, then save and >> > close&reopen and then re-protect? >> > Sorry, that is my best shot and i'm sure you have probably already tried >> > it. My guess is that even renaming the User Profile wouldn't fix this one >> > so i'm all at sea. >> > >> > Luckily there are a lot of people here that know far more than me. >> > Apols and regards from >> > Tom :) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >________________________________ >> > > From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> >> > >To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >> > >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> >> > >Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 17:05 >> > >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working >> > > >> > >It's an .ods file using it on Fedora with LO 3.5.7.2. >> > > >> > >On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 16:58 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: >> > >> Hi :) >> > >> What format? If you are using MS formats then LO ignores the password >> > >> protection but MSO users will be required to enter a password. I'm >> > >> not sure what happens in MSO if you try to password protect an Odt >> > >> file. >> > >> Regards from >> > >> Tom :) >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ >> > >> From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> >> > >> To: users@global.libreoffice.org >> > >> Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 16:48 >> > >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> I've got a Calc document that I've had for years with password >> > >> protection on it. Suddenly the protection has stopped >> > >> working--the >> > >> document opens without any prompting for password. I went into >> > >> File/Properties and reset protection. But it's still opening >> > >> without >> > >> password. When I go back to Properties/Security, the >> > >> "unprotect" button >> > >> shows. >> > >> >> > >> What can have happened? >> > >> >> > >> Thanks. >> > >> >> > >> EB >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users >> > >> +h...@global.libreoffice.org >> > >> Problems? >> > >> >> > >>http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> > >> Posting guidelines + more: >> > >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> > >> List archive: >> > >> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> > >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and >> > >> cannot be deleted >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >-- >> > >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >> > >Problems? >> > >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> > >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> > >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> > >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> > >deleted >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >> >> > > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
