Issue 55377 - Writer does not saves files with large tables
Summary: Writer does not saves files with large tables
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.4
Hardware: Other All
: P2 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact:
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Keywords: oooqa
: 108470 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-10-03 08:12 UTC by jancs
Modified: 2019-12-06 14:36 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


Attachments
file contains MS Word document for testing (592.21 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-10-03 09:28 UTC, jancs
no flags Details
ODT with missing lines in table (64.16 KB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2019-12-06 14:36 UTC, THEVENIN
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Description jancs 2005-10-03 08:12:47 UTC
How it is noticed: i opened a large MS doc file, containing table 24x3000 cells
containing one word per cell and tried to save it as odt - i got about 1/10 of
the text. Then i tried to copy paste the same - everything was ok until i tried
to save it - the same "success" - i can provide the original file - compressed
it is about 200k (~18M uncompressed).
With the smaler files everything was ok (for example - table 24x2000 went
through - size of MS doc - ~12 M)
Comment 1 flibby05 2005-10-03 09:09:00 UTC
jancs, thanks for reporting this!
please attach a sample file for reproducing
Comment 2 jancs 2005-10-03 09:28:25 UTC
Created attachment 30078 [details]
file contains MS Word document for testing
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2005-10-04 10:36:02 UTC
Reassigned to ES.
Comment 4 andreschnabel 2005-10-08 10:19:45 UTC
confirming for WinXP, OOo 2.0RC2:
When saving the file as .odt or .sxw, most of the content will be lost. When
saving as .doc, the file will be broken (Word03 crashes on first attempt to open
but can repair the file in a second run. COntent seems to be ok after the repair.)

Leaving P", as we have a data loss here
Comment 5 andreschnabel 2005-10-08 10:26:24 UTC
just a notice: same happens with OOo 1.1.5, when saving to .sxw
Comment 6 eric.savary 2005-10-10 12:59:46 UTC
ES->FLR: please have a look.
Comment 7 Joe Smith 2006-02-01 18:41:26 UTC
Confirmed (probably) for Linux/OOo 2.0.0 also.

I tried creating a large table (>7000 rows by 10 columns) from a text file.
Writer successfully read the text and converted it to a table (although that
conversion took >15'), but I could not select/modify the whole table at once,
and on saving & re-opening, most of the data was lost.

Based on the reports here, I assume this is all the same bug.

Limit of 65535 cells in some internal ops? Just a guess.
Comment 8 jancs 2006-11-29 22:37:54 UTC
today (29.11.2006) i found that some part of the problem remains - i opened the
file (MSword doc) containing large table (~72000 cells), made some editions and
saved the file. After this operation, when tried to open the file in Word, it
crashed without any messages. As the seccond - i can not split the table in this
file using "Split table" - Writer thinks for a while and nothing happens.
Currently i am working with OO 2.04 on WinXP
Comment 9 jancs 2006-11-29 22:42:44 UTC
Forgot to mention: problematic file has a table with 3122 rows, but when looking
under file/properties, after the update it shows number of lines 9743.
Comment 10 jancs 2006-12-05 07:37:51 UTC
under issue http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72194 the test file
is available.
Comment 11 utomo99 2007-02-13 12:49:48 UTC
@ FLR, IMHO Data Lost need to be considered for better target. 
how about OOo 2.x ? better if OOo 2.3
Thanks

 
Comment 12 jancs 2009-04-15 20:58:21 UTC
The problem is still there - when trying to save large table as odt, everything
is lost(table 14949 rows to 21 col). 
The same remains with saving the table as MS Word doc - it saves it and the doc
can be opened without problems in OO, but when trying to open it in MS Word, the
result ir broken table and the only possibility offered by MSWord is to convert
table to text (did not tried this).
Comment 13 kanupriya 2009-09-14 15:13:21 UTC
Issue : Truncating content of large MS doc file containing large table while 
opening through OpenOffice.

Reproduced: yes

Configuration Used : 

     OS                 ->    Windows Vista
     RAM Used           ->    4 GB  


Build Used:     OpenOffice Version 3.3.1


Steps to Reproduce:

  1> Open OpenOffice
  2> Click File->New->Text Document
  3> Add a large table like 30X30000
  4> Save file with extension *.odt
  5> Open Office hangs for several minutes for saving.
  6> Try to open the saved file.
  7> Note that it takes several minutes to open the file.
  8> The file opened truncates the content of data.

Comments:

  While saving and opening the file it gives the message in the status bar as 
not-responding but if the user 
let it alone for sometime it will save the file with the data truncated.
Comment 14 kanupriya 2009-09-14 15:14:14 UTC
Issue : Truncating content of large MS doc file containing large table while 
opening through OpenOffice.

Reproduced: yes

Configuration Used : 

     OS                 ->    Windows Vista
     RAM Used           ->    4 GB  


Build Used:     OpenOffice Version 3.3.1


Steps to Reproduce:

  1> Open OpenOffice
  2> Click File->New->Text Document
  3> Add a large table like 30X30000
  4> Save file with extension *.odt
  5> Open Office hangs for several minutes for saving.
  6> Try to open the saved file.
  7> Note that it takes several minutes to open the file.
  8> The file opened truncates the content of data.

Comments:

  While saving and opening the file it gives the message in the status bar as 
not-responding but if the user 
let it alone for sometime it will save the file with the data truncated.
Comment 15 michael.ruess 2010-01-20 08:51:45 UTC
*** Issue 108470 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 16 Rob Weir 2013-07-30 02:41:10 UTC
Reset assignee on issues not touched by assignee in more than 1000 days.
Comment 17 THEVENIN 2019-12-06 14:36:03 UTC
Created attachment 86782 [details]
ODT with missing lines in table

I have the same kinf of problem with the attached ODT document
The table with title "Public" is normally on 7 pages (as seen in MS Word), but only the first one is displayed in OpenOffice Writer
Is there a workaround ?