Ross,
As for my file, it is a list of prices for the products in my company.
The original file was 388k. It is a small file. I do have colors
that vary from one column to another.
As for my memory, I have 1GB plus 128MB. I have NeoOffice, Apple Mail,
iTunes, and a msall utility or two.
I seem to have enough memory.
I just saved the file in questions. It takes 3 minutes.
Ideas?
Joe
On Mar 6, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Ross Bernheim wrote:
Joe,
There appears to be something else going on here as savings times of a
few seconds to tens of
seconds is the norm. Is the file heavily formatted? That might slow
things down somewhat.
Another thing to look at is how many other programs are open on your
Mac and how much
memory you have and are using. If you have a lot of programs open and
insufficient memory,
OOo and NeoOffice/J use a lot of memorty.) You might be swapping
memory out to disk which
might account for the problem.
Ross Bernheim
On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:40, Joseph Hogan wrote:
Hello
Thanks for the help.
I am all for cross compatibility, but when saving a file (recommended
on a regular to avoid loss of work) takes 2-3 minutes t save, is this
not a major hindrance?
Crazy thing, I recently upgraded my Mac from 350MHz to a 1.6GHz
machine, thinking that I would have avoided the speed issues. I
would need a 10 GHz machine to speed up the compression enough to
make it acceptable:(
The frustrating part is that I have to stop everything and find
something else to do while the file is saving...
Anyway, I have vented enough today.
Thanks for your help (and helping me to understand).
Joseph
On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Robin Laing wrote:
Joseph Hogan wrote:
Hello,
I decided to take the plunge, and start using Neo Office.
I have the latest version. I am using an upgraded Mac (G4 350MHz
to a 1.6GHz).
I have a file that I use to keep track of prices for my little
company. It is a 388k file. I saved it as an NeoOffice file and
it became 60 k.
Being such a small file, why does it take over a minute to resave
the file when I make changes?
While I like the whole Neo Office idea, if it will be this slow, I
might drop it right away.
Joe
Welcome to the world of compatible files across systems.
You have experienced what many have complained about with OOo. It
isn't just Neo Office.
The issue is conversion from a binary format that your software uses
to the XML format that the files are saved in and then the
compression time.
I have done some comparisons between MS Office and OOo and was
surprised by the time differences. But what I lost on time, I won
on compatibility between different OS's. At least I know that as
long as I have the same fonts on any machine, I can open the OOo
based document in Windows, Linux or Mac with no headaches. I also
know that if there are problems with the file, (quite rare) I can
recover most if not all the data by unzipping the file.
It would be nice to see the save times improve but it will never be
as fast as saving a binary file directly.
--
Robin Laing
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