what happened to my drawing

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 06:57:07 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:17 -0800, Les wrote:
> HI, everyone,
> 	I had a drawing I created in OO draw, and wanted to edit it.  I opened
> it, made the changes, then saved it.  I was talking to my wife during
> this process, and a message window came up saying that some bits might
> not be saved in the PNG format.  I clicked OK, and closed the
> application after the save.  
> 	Later I came back to work on it, and the drawing had a size of 0.  It
> was gone.  Now, I'm no artist, so it takes me a long time to generate a
> drawing I can use for something, on the order of days.  In this case I
> lost a week or so's work.  So I thought, maybe OO draw saved a temp
> version.  I thought I can just open OO draw and maybe recapture the
> whole thing.  However I cannot find Open Office draw either.  I have
> Calendar, Dia diagram editor, Invest Chart, J-Pilot, Presentation,
> Project Management, Spreadsheet, Tasks, and Word Processing under the
> Office menue of Applications.  I already tried removing and
> re-installing Open Office Draw using the Applications-add/remove
> software tool, but no joy.
> 
> 	I am sure I have a copy on my backup, so I can recover the drawing, but
> what gives with Open Office Draw?  Am I the only one with this problem?
> Where would I invoke OO draw directly?

Les, I just checked my machine using: rpm -qa |grep openoffice and got
this: openoffice.org-draw-2.2.0-14.8
Hope this helps! Ric

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