libre office

[Raymond House]

Hi Bob, I opened Libre Office and cancelled as you suggested and tried
opening an email video and it works OK.I would have never thought to do
that, many thanks, all the best.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> There seem to be two problems here:
>
> 1) Your browser is configured to open LibreOffice for video and
> pictures. (I assume you use a browser to view your e-mail because of
> your @gmail.com address)  Which browser are you using? When I save
> files with IceCat (Firefox) I get a dialogue to "Open file with" (and
> a drop-down menu to select the application) or "Save As". If you don't
> get that, you can remove the file association with "Edit, Preferences,
> Applications", selecting the content type for the file format you're
> downloading, then change the Action to "Always ask".  There'll be
> something similar for other browsers.
>
> 2) LibreOffice sees temporary files that it tries to recover.  Try
> opening LibreOffice by itself. If the dialogue for recovery pops up
> you can either recover the document, or choose to cancel the document
> recovery (you may have to select "cancel" twice).  Either way, the
> temporary document should now be gone. You can test by closing and
> opening LibreOffice again.
>
> If the document recovery dialogue continues to pop up then you likely
> have temporary files that you don't have permission to delete. But
> let's deal with that later.
>
> - --Bob.
>
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> On 2016-12-11 10:16 AM, Raymond House wrote:
> > Hello everyone, since I upgraded to 16.10 every time I get a video
> > or pictures in an email I get a window Libre office 5.2 that says
> > Libre office document recovery and I must click recovery and then
> > Finish before the download starts.It all works well but this is new
> > I never had to do this before 16.10. Any one else getting this too?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
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