I too have witnessed a few freeze ups when it comes to documents with many images, but mainly I get long load times. One question, if you double click an image what comes up, MSPaint, or OpenOffice's picture window? I found that many of my images were somehow linked to MSPaint and that when I worked with the document it created some 10 instances of MSPaint.exe. I double clicked each image that opened with MSPaint then did edit->Select All -> Cut -> then pasted it back in the document in place of the original image. This removed whatever link was originally there with MSPaint. I'm sure this is not the best way to get around this problem, but it worked for me and I figured it might help lead to a resolution. (I'm on OO v109 on an NT box.).
Robert >>> RDMcBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/26/05 12:04 AM >>> Hello Users List: I have isolated a group of wild files that seem to resent any tampering. Usually I cannot even open them; but when I can, I know that making a change to them is likely to cause a freeze up. The package of files is about 24 pages, has several graphic/picture objects, which have been collected under Writer 122. Curiously, the size of a file occasionally changes as I attempt to open it, one example ranging from about 1.9 mb at the beginning, to 2.8 mb later, although I did not consciously add material. After struggling with this chapter and its several lists of notes and illustrations, I have isolated a group of 9 offending files at 13.9 mb and tried to leave them alone. But they still contain unique information. What I have done is break the several long files, mostly text, some graphics, into individual page files and saved them in Writer 1.1.4 -- because it seemed less nervous about having graphics mixed into the litter. Gradually, I reconstructed this collection from the individual swx saves back into odt, pretty well reconstructing the original set, except for graphics. It seems the graphics are either causing the problem, or they are the symptoms responding to something else. Not sure, but it seems that setting View > Display > Graphics and Objects to Off makes the lot a bit more stable. I have the feeling that not all the files were changed over to the same Off setting, but I don't know how this could be? At least I can work with these reconstructions and the freezeups have not returned -- yet. Does any of this seem familiar to anyone? I run XP SP2 Home; 42 gbt drive; 512 rimm; 1300 ghz chip. Can I send any other info to get some help? Thanks to anyone willing to read this long message, and respond. Richard McB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
