<div class="gmail_quote">Hello Everybody Ever since the upgrade to Kubuntu 10.10, I am experiencing weird problems with OpenOffice.org Writer. At least once per week, this package "freezes" while I am working on a document. This means: in the middle of some intense working session, the whole system stops working altogether. At such a moment, I even am not able to "kill" OpenOffice Writer via Control-Alt-Esc or to stop in some way the whole system, because EVERYTHING stagnates. The only remaining option in such a situation seems simply to unplug my netbook from electricity delivery. After about a minute, I replug the netbook again, switch it on in order to return to Kubuntu. After doing so, I go back to the document I have been working on until it froze- in 9 out of 10 of such situations, I manage to successfully restore the document and continue the session. But in about 1 out of 10 situations, the document is simply not accessible any more. The only option remaining in such a situation is starting anew, from the previous version of the document. As a matter of result, several hours of work get lost, unless I regularly back-up the file in another folder. When analysing such problem situations, it becomes clear to me that restoring a document is often difficult or impossible in case I have imported one or more images (photo's or drawings) in the document: images in formats like .png and .jpeg. Making such images smaller helps to diminish the crash risk, but not to altogether eliminate it. At present, I know only 2 methods to further diminish the impact of the problem: regularly copying the file to another folder and all the time pressing control-s in order to save the latest changes. However, those 2 methods do not prevent OO writer from "freezing" amidst a working session. I am really wondering how to get rid of this freezing problem! Thanks for your reactions. Respectfully yours, Bas. </div>