On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:44:49 +0200 "hdv@gmail" <hdv.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2014-08-29 13:59, Tom Davies wrote: > > Hi :) > > Hm, but Ubuntu has no troubles with network files. I thought i > > was on LO 3.5.7 but i might have upgraded. I'm out of the office > > for a few hours again but could check later. > > > > Our file-server is a Debian one and done using a Samba share. No > > other files are affected so it's only when using LO to open them. > > [snip] > > Some additional data I just received from one of the colleagues. > This problem also appeared on Windows 7 and 8 clients. Funny this popped-up when it did. We just had a HelpDesk report, last week, of a similar problem. .xls files that a user had been opening for read for years all-of-a-sudden wouldn't open. Windows 7 and (if memory serves) MSO 2007. File modification dates indicated they hadn't been modified in years. I tested it on my desktop (Ubuntu 13.x, IIRC) and LO would churn for a while, then emit a "something wrong in the format/encoding/something" kind of an error and bail. (Sorry for the useless error message info. I never bothered recording it because I never believed it to be an LO problem.) I copied the files to my local machine, using scp, and they opened right up. I created a parallel directory on the server, copied the files from the original directory into that, and they opened just fine. I deleted the original directory and renamed the new one to the original's name, and they opened just fine. I'm suspecting a Samba screw-up (cached metadata?), on the server, in my case. > But one of > the more technically versed persons thought it might have to do > with the quality of the network connection. [snip] Not in my case. Both the server in question and my desktop are connected to the backbone switch with very short (less than 10m) cable runs. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- 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
