They begin with a dot, you might not see them in a Linux file explorer, but they are definitely there.

LibreOffice creates lock files when you open documents, to prevent multiple writes to the same file. Should these methods fail, then you need to consider a bit of hackery. Then, try to save theįile with a new name (Save as). LibreOffice and/or create a new file and copy the content into it, then save and move on. Well, you should copy data into a text editor, to begin with. To be more specific:Įrror in writing sub-document content.xml. Lock file to vanish, after which the program started complaining about save errors. Indeed, I was working on a file on a host that has LibreOffice 4.X, and for some reason, autosave caused the

But what if this happens again, and your LibreOffice cannot save the changes you made to a document?

Might not consider it relevant anymore to your daily usage. Lead to weird save errors, causing people to lose data and whatnot. There was a bug in version 4.X of LibreOffice, which would What I'm going to talk about today used to be a big problem in the past.

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