Troubleshooting Common Problems - OpenOffice

1 Troubleshooting Common Problems [ Troubleshooting Common Problems ][ ]First edition: [2006-02-23]First English edition: [2006-02-23] and trademark and Message contains Get Storage: "No Content" ..1 Multi-user installations:..1 Single-user installations:..1 Outline numbering is not retained after a page count includes the title page. How do I offset the page count?..4 Document prints or exports with blank pages ..5 General error or General input/output error ..6 Recovering content from a damaged file ..7 Opening Microsoft Works Documents in recipients of my files can't open or incomplete installation or prompted to checking new fonts to Documentation License, Version Common ProblemsiOverviewOverviewExtracts from the Documentation Project User and trademark informationThe contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License, Version (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the terms of this License.

2 A copy of the License is available at: Original Documentation is Troubleshooting Common Problems . The Initial Writer(s) of the Original Documentation is/are G. Roderick Singleton 2006. All Rights Reserved. (Initial Writer Portions created by are Copyright (C)2006. All Rights Reserved. (Contributor trademarks within this guide belong to legitimate owners.[Note: a copy of the PDL is included in this template and is also available at: ]FeedbackPlease direct any comments or suggestions about this document has contributed this HOW-TO and is basing it on the User Guide Troubleshooting and updatesVersionDateDescription of Change[ ][2006-02-23][grs: Initial edition issued for comment][ ][2006-08-01][wam: Edited for clarity/format, added parts from User Guide][ ][2006-08-19][wam: Added and edited new sections] Troubleshooting Common ProblemsiiError Message contains Get Storage: "No Content" Error Message contains Get Storage: "No Content" The full error message reads: OpenOffice can not be started due to an error in accessing the configuration contact your system administrator.))

3 The following internal error has occurred: Get Storage: "No Content" Often this message occurs because there is a file called that sometimes gets corrupted. In most cases, it seems that this file ends up being filled with 0s (zeros). The problem seems to occur more often under Windows , possibly as a result of a crash or improper exit while was open. Under Windows To locate this file under Windows , it is easiest to use Windows Explorer's Find function (sometimes called Search). Multi-user installations:Where is installed as multi-user under Windows NT/2000/XP, this file is likely to be in a special system user directory. Therefore, having administrator rights and enabling the option to view system directories in Explorer is essential before using the Find function. This particular file should be found in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\ <release>\user\registry\data\org\ OpenOffice \Offic e\ where <username> is an actual user name and <release> is the release of Once the file is located, make sure is closed and simply rename the file (for example, to something like ).

4 Restart and a new is created and the problem should disappear. Single-user installations:Where is installed for a single user, this file is likely to be in C:\Program Files\ <release>\<username>\registry\data\org\ OpenOffice \Office\ where <username> is an actual user name and <release> is the release of However, if the OS is NT/2000/XP, this file could still be in a special system user directory. Therefore, having administrator rights and enabling the option to view system directories in Explorer is essential before using the Find function. For Windows 95/98/ME, the location should be as mentioned above in this section, though C:\Windows\Application Data\ \user\registry\data\org\ OpenOffice \offic e\ might be a good place to , once the file is located, simply rename the file (for example to something like ). Now restart and a new is created and the problem should have disappeared. Troubleshooting Common Problems1 Error Message contains Get Storage: "No Content" Note: there may be files called under paths such as C:\<some path>\.

5 <release>\share\registry\.. et cetera where <release> is the release of The difference being here share appears in place of the user name. Do NOT delete these files!UNIX systemsThe default location of this file under a UNIX installation (single or multi-user) is $HOME/ . <release>/user/registry/data/org/ OpenOffice / where $HOME is the user's home directory. As above, simply rename the file (for example to something like ) and restart A new is created and the problem should have disappeared. Troubleshooting Common Problems2 Outline numbering is not retained after a saveOutline numbering is not retained after a saveThis is issue, 27534 (see ), which is fixed in release However, in documents generated by up to , one must employ a workaround to achieve expected behavior. The problem is that a line in is being set incorrectly when a document is saved. Unfortunately, the only way to fix this is to manually edit the .sxw following provides a procedure to a temporary directory in which to unzip the.

6 Sxw file. For example, into this unzip or similar zipfile utility to unpack the problem document and locate the line that looks like the following:<config:config-item config:name="UseOldNumbering" config:type="boolean">false</config:config-item> the value from false to using zip or similar utility, repack the files in the temporary directory under a new file name and give it the .sxw extension. With Linux the command could be:zip -r * the fixed document in and verify the a copy of StarOffice is available, one can get the same effect by opening and saving the document in StarOffice By doing so, this line will be removed totally. Likewise, might also work. In either case , when the document is opened using , the line, described above, is added with value true and there will be no further Problems with outline Common Problems3 The page count includes the title page. How do I offset the page count?The page count includes the title page.

7 How do I offset the page count?If one has a title page or cover page in the document, Writer's page count field still counts those pages and the page count will be too high. Unfortunately, there is no way to offset the page count field. Using a formula instead will insert the proper page count. Here's the procedure: Place the cursor in the header or footer where the corrected page count should appear. Press the F2 key to bring up the formula bar. Type in the formula =page - 1 (the = will already be there). The page variable is the number of pages in the document, not the page currently selected. Subtract the number of pages that should not be counted in the page count (in this example, 1, for a title page). Press the Enter key to insert the formula. Choose Tools > Update > Fields from the menu (or press F9) to force the formula to refresh. (Otherwise, the page count formula result will display as 0.) To edit this formula again later, place the cursor immediately before the formula, and press F2.

8 Note: Every time the page count changes, refresh the formula Common Problems4 Document prints or exports with blank pages Document prints or exports with blank pages This issue, 3910 (see ), is affected by the book-centric paradigm of left/right, even/odd pages that is so deeply ingrained into that it applies even when using nothing but the Default page a Title page style from Default or First out the title page as , select Insert > Manual and specify Next Style as First Page. Check the box marked Change page number and set the number to 1. This results in the phantom page which the following steps will correct. the Styles and Formatting window and modify the First page style layout to be Left Only. status bar will now show Page 1 2/2, which is what is wanted. The page style following First Page is Default and the page numbering will proceed without surprises from Common Problems5 General error or General input/output error General error or General input/output error This error message indicates that the files and could be missing or corrupted.

9 In UNIX-based environments, look for them in the directory $HOME/. <release>/user/basic or, in Windows : C:\Document and Settings\<username>\Application Data\ <release>\user\basicTo fix the problem , exit (including the Quickstarter, if it is running) and copy the files as detailed UNIX-based environments, copy from the directory<where_OOo_is_installed>/presets/basic/ to$HOME/. <release>/user/basic On a Windows computer, copy from C:\Program Files\ <release>\presets\basic to C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\ <release>\user\basic Note: To be absolutely safe, one could also delete the local settings directory. By doing this, however, all personal settings and customizations could be lost. Troubleshooting Common Problems6 Recovering content from a damaged file Recovering content from a damaged file The following set of instructions may or may not work, depending on how badly the file is damaged. The steps outlined assume the user has some basic technical skills.

10 Prerequisites for using this method are: A zip utility such as Zip for most platforms or WinZip for Windows. Sufficient disk space to allow multiple copies. for recovering the a backup of the a directory in which to the zip utility of your choice to unpack the damaged file into the directory created in step 2. Note: sometimes changing the extension of the file to zip is to create a new empty file of the same type as the damaged one and save Steps 2 and 3 with the new empty the file in the directory created in Step 5 with the from the damaged file unpacked in Step the zip utility to repackage the files and directories in the directory created in Step the new zipfile with the extension used with the original the new file in and fix any formatting Problems including inserting graphics. These can be found in the appropriate sub-directory of the directory created in Step the content is recovered using this method, delete the various folders that were created and the other files you no longer has a good recovery mechanism and users should enable IT by going to Tools > Options > Load/Save > General andmaking sure the following options are checked: Always create a backup Save AutoRecovery information every.