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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 06:54:04 +0100
From: Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Issue 121930] Tracking Issue for Spell Checking Not
 Working
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 06:51:16 +0200
Peter Kovacs <peter.kovacs@posteo.de> wrote:

> This bug seems old.
> Should we keep it around?
> 
> I don't know. What are the action point in this one?
> 

As far as I can tell, from advising on the Forum, most spellcheck problems arising from loss of spellcheck on a previously working system are due to over-hasty power off of the computer, without leaving time for the hardware write buffers (which are internal to the hard disk) to flush the User Profile to disk.  

On old (OOo) linux installations (circa Ubuntu 8.04) it was not unusual for a fresh OOo install to start with faulty spellcheck; the solution then, as now, was to delete the User Profile.  

We do not have detailed knowledge of how the users reporting faulty spellcheck on installation actually install their AOO; very frequently they try peculiar methods rather than simply double clicking the downloaded .exe file

Rory 

> 
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Von: bugzilla@apache.org
> Gesendet: 13. Juni 2017 02:49:05 MESZ
> An: issues@openoffice.apache.org
> Betreff: [Issue 121930] Tracking Issue for Spell Checking Not Working
> 
> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121930
> 
> --- Comment #127 from Joe <ponusjoe42@yahoo.com> ---
> This is one of the most useless “help” sites I have ever seen. And most of the
> responses here are ridiculous. Aren't the developers here supposed to update
> these programs when a bug is found?
> I don't know about anybody else but my spellcheck just stops working. Twice. So
> I just deleted the program and reinstalled it. Works fine. I didn't change any
> directory names, didn't add any remotely related programs, have no detectable
> virus, the spellcheck just stops working from what appears to be an internal
> problem. So fix it. Jeez!
> 
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