Hi :) Thanks all :) [takes a bow]
I really appreciate you guys too :) Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> >To: Tom <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >Cc: Ian <whitfi...@telkomsa.net>; users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013, 18:05 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Thanks for the advice Tom!!! > > > I agree with you Ian! > > Cleaning out the cache ... re-booting ... ... ... > I think these are used to confound us ;-) > > Without Tom, many of us could remain befuddled ;-) > so I hope, Tom, you continue to spread your helpful hints. > > > > >On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > >Hi :) >>Lqtm :) Thanks :) Yes, it's a magic "waggle the wires" type of answer that >>a lot of much more knowledgeable people miss. >> >>On Ubuntu's Launchpad pseudo-forums for questions about sound issues i got >>used to asking the standard questions Mark Rijckenburg would usually ask, to >>save him the time. In the same 1st response i would casually mention it >>worth unplugging and re-plugging the little green plug and the speaker's >>power-supply and switch the speakers on again. Just doing that seemed to >>fix around 60%-80% of problems! >> >>As a menu item it would need to say something like "Reset LibreOffice back >>to factory defaults" but a few people might get an unexpectedly more pure set >>of defaults than they originally had because the version in their distro's >>repo or versions on unofficial sites or Cd/Dvds might have already been >>tweaked. >> >>Anyway, i'm glad the magic worked :) >>Regards from >>Tom :) >> >> >> >> >>> >>> From: Ian Whitfield <whitfi...@telkomsa.net> >>>To: users@global.libreoffice.org >>>Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013, 7:32 >>>Subject: [libreoffice-users] Thanks for the advice Tom!!! >> >>> >>>Hi Tom >>> >>>Just a "Shout Out" to you my friend!! >>> >>>I have noticed over the years that you are a regular informer to people >>>having problems with LO (Me included!!) And that you frequently tell them >>>to" Rename your Profile". >>> >>>Well this week I was doing some work on comparing two printouts from two >>>different Databases looking for common names, duplicates and missing names. >>>I had pulled both lists into Calc and was happily getting the job done when >>>LO froze-up, started writing to the HDD for some time and then crashed. >>> >>>I said a few choice words and re-started - 10 mins later it happened again. >>>I re-booted the whole system and tried again - same thing. >>> >>>I re-created the Calc file and tried again - same result!! >>> >>>By this time my choice words were getting VERY colourful!! I sat back and >>>thought about the problem. Then I remembered your frequent advice to "Rename >>>the Profile" so I gave it a go. >>> >>>MAGIC - all returned to its usual perfect condition and I have had no more >>>problems. >>> >>>Thanks Tom for pushing the fix and to have kept reminding us of it. I almost >>>feel that a "Rename Profile" option should be added to the Menu - what do >>>you think!!?? >>> >>>All the best and keep it up Tom >>> >>>IanW >>>Pretoria RSA >>> >> > > -- 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
