I encountered a most infuriating problem today when working with LO on OSX - file corruption when writing to an external disk drive.
As I'm often having to work with different machines, and different OSes, I have an external FAT formatted LaCie hard drive to store my files on. This works great on Linux, Windows and OSX. Until LO 4252, I had never encountered any file corruption issues, absent power cuts and NFS shares ;-) and I have been using StarOffice, then OpenOffice and now LO since StarOffice first became available for OSes other than Windows - that just goes to show how long my teeth are with regard to this product. However, in the space of a fortnight, LO 4252 has successfully trashed two Writer documents that I was working on, irreparably, once about a fortnight ago, and once today. The first time it happened, I thought it was a one-off, and I actually hadn't been working on the file for long when it happened. Today, I lost two hours work, and working to a very tight deadline thanks to a client's late order. Needless to say, I was/am not impressed. The file can not be opened in any of the following : OOo 3.2.1 OOo 4.0.0 LO 3.6.7 LO 4.1.3 LO 4.2.5 The file can not be unzipped or repaired with zip, and yet it is stated as weighing in at 73 kb (of binary rubbish). I love LO, and the whole open source idea, but the product needs a serious quality rethink if things like this can happen. I have had no such issues on Linux, which just goes to show that the developers, as a whole, give little heed to the changes they make in the code and the effect it can have on other OSes (Windows, Mac) - as they would say, "how are we supposed to know whether change x or y will have an impact on a closed source OS ?" - more attention is given to the Windows arena because that is where the perceived markets are for the taking. This leaves the little people like Joe Bloggs / Jane Doe, etc, here, to deal with the issues on OSX, of which there are many, and too few developers willing or interested to care about fixing them. Had I stuck to MS Word (yes, I have Office 2011 for Mac), this would not have happened, of that I am certain. Had I stuck to 4.1.x, this would not have happened either, but no that is now obsolete...instead we have a 4.2.5.x as "stable" with deficiencies like the one I encountered, and as a businessman, I begin to seriously start questioning the benefit/risk assessment of the whole LO thing. This is just a word of warning to others, as they say "your mileage may vary". Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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