Drew Jensen wrote:
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
I don't know if this list's mail client accepts attachments or not,
but I have attached an OOo Draw document containing a screen print of
the error message I get when trying to open tables in my
OOo-2.3.1-Base database
Yes I got the attachment.
I am running OOo 2.3.1 under Windows XP SP2 and have tried differing
ways of opening the .odg file: double clicking on the file name;
right clicking on the birds icon in the System Tray and selecting
Open Document; and trying to open my database from within a Writer
document ('New'). In each case, the database does come up with
'Forms' selected. When I click on 'Tables', I get the attached error
message.
That makes sense in that the connection to the database is not
established when the file is opened, but put off until any data is
actually required. Form names do not require this, but a list of table
names in GUI does.
I wrote about this before and Helen kindly suggested turning my
computer on and off again, and that did, indeed. fix the problem and
I was able to find and edit my tables. However, I have several jobs
simultaneously on the go at the moment, and it is not convenient to
shutdown my computer, and it shouldn't be necessary to do so.
IN A NUTSHELL ...
I can open my database but not find or open any tables for editing.
Has anyone any further ideas on why this might be happening?
Many thanks, James
Is it just this one ODB file that does this - and is there any rhyme
or reason to a pattern here - you say sometimes it is fine other times
this.
Personally I have never had that particular error message - although
it was a known problem, in previous releases, with lock files being
left open when using the quickstarter. Not the same error message but
somewhat similar behavior. That has, for the most part, been cleared
up, but I would have to check if the correction is actually in Base or
the use of a newer JRE, 1.6x in other words.
First question - do you run Quickstarter - and if you do- then if you
kill all instances of open windows and quickstarter - then open the
file does that clear the error?
The same problem has just started happening to me in the last couple of
days, with no configuration changes (as far as I know, anyway!): WinXP,
OOo 2.3.1, Java 1.6.0_02, no Quickstarter. I see it when I open my
embedded HSQLdb database. It shows the lists of tables and queries, but
gets into the problem when I try to open a query. One possibly useful
bit of info, related to what you said about the .lck files: I had exited
OOo completely, with nothing left unsaved, but OOo tried to "recover"
the database. Since I knew there was no need, I didn't let it do that
(no idea what it thinks it has to do!). Can't guarantee that I didn't
change something under Tools > Options; could making some particular
change there, or maybe just having caused an update to the .xcu file, be
at the bottom of this? Or maybe something about the timing of the
autosaved recovery data?
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