Sorry; sounds as if you're 'stuck between a rock & a hard place"
May be the hieroglyphic nature which is confusing the machine ??? From: Thomas Blasejewicz <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] file format problem? To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 2016/04/07 0:16, anne-ology wrote: > [yet another program?] > SpiderOak is not a program but a cloud storage service like Dropbox. What I save on one computer will be synchronized (AND older versions archived) with my other computers. [suggestion: open LO - then attempt to open saved document, allowing it > to translate if necessary; > hopefully, your file will re-appear.] > > That did not help. I opened the .docx file with LO in the first place, upon saving accepted the proposed (by LO) .docx format. The file contained originally about 4300 Japanese characters. > Even though there was nothing on my screen beyond the first 1/3 of that > file, its size did not change. > When I deleted the second 2/3 of the original file, the original size of > 470 kb shrank to 130 kb. > After I re-typed all the lost work and saved that first as .ODT and then > later as .docx, file size was 23 and 16 kb respectively. > > [these are MsFt not LO documents.] > After the trouble occurred, I copied TEXT ONLY into Writer, finished work there AND THEN saved first as .odt and then as .docx (same file) Necessity for Word format: translation agencies send me those Word file -> expect them to be "overwritten" -> AND expect Word files back. Which will then be sold to the clients who ordered the translations. (translation not of file formats, but of text: manuals, books, letters etc.) If I start mumbling "I use only odt format ...", they will probably stop sending me work. Then I will starve to death ... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted