Openoffice.org Word Processor keeps shutting down on me in a middle of a document

[Mark]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Scott Berry <scottbb1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:33 -0700, Mark wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 11:56:03 pm Scott Berry wrote:
>> >> Hello there,
>> >>
>> >> When I read or create a document my OO Word processor keeps shutting
>> >> down on me.  For example, I was trying to read one of my text books that
>> >> was prepared for me I could read so much and then OO Word Processor
>> >> would disappear.  It also seems as though my OO word processor thinks
>> >> that it has to fix documents each time I start it.  What options do I
>> >> have to repair this?
>> >
>> > What version of OOo? Does it happen with all documents? If not is there
>> > anything special to those documents?
>> >
>> > I run 3.2.1 here and noticed nothing of that sort.
>> >
>>
>> Could you be a little more vague?  :-)
>>
>> Hardware? Software? Document details? How long does it take to fail
>> from your starting point (provide an actual clock time, not a
>> subjective estimate)?
>>
>> The more specific/detailed you are, the better an answer you'll get.
>>
> Could I be more vague sure.  That was not really called for.  But yes
> I'll explain more.
>
That was a more or less standard humorous remark (I don't always
remember the smilies when I believe the humor should be obvious, but I
guess I should anyway).  No need to be offended, and please remember
to bottom-post.

> I am using a Sony Vgcra8820G computer. This is using 2GB of RAM and no I
> can't actually give a clock time.  But when the document opens it comes
> up immediately with the repair stage.  Then it is usually around a
> minute when it quits and disappears.  What other info can I provide.

Well, for starters:

(From Thierry's post before mine:
>> >
>> > What version of OOo? Does it happen with all documents? If not is there
>> > anything special to those documents?

I am not familiar with the Sony Vgcra8820G and I'm not terribly
inclined to look it up for this purpose - what CPU & speed, what speed
memory, what kind of disk, etc.?  This is what I meant by "Hardware?"
and "more specific/detailed."

What OS are you running? Which desktop manager?  This is "Software?"
and "more specific/detailed."

More direct response:

I'm not sure what you mean by the document coming up immediately in
the repair stage.  When that sort of thing happens for me, it's any
(all) OOo documents and they all get restored at once, and there are
steps it goes through.  From your description I'm guessing that you're
not seeing the normal recovery windows I just described, so . . .

Have you tried copying the document to another file and opening that
one?  (This can cause different results that might be useful.)

Are you sure your OOo installation isn't corrupt?  Have you tried
removing and reinstalling it?

That's it from the top of my head - send more if you can.

Mark