.swx

[carlotta]

Hi
Sorry for my english
but I have a problem with neooffice
I have a file than i save in neoffice
and I don't know why néo save it in .swx
and when I try to read it there is nothing
all my pages were invisibles
It's one day work
I try everything to read it but I have the bad impression that my files are lost for life.
Help me please


G5 MAC OS TIGER Neo office new beta version

[jjmckenzie51]

[carlotta]

Hi james and many thanxx for your very speed help



Did you try to read the file with NeoOffice or another program?

Yes with Neo office and aperçu

Click on the MacIntosh HD item (it should be in the upper right hand
corner of your Desktop). Navigate to where you saved the .sxw file.
Cntl + Click on the file. This will open a list of things to do with the file. Click on the Get Info item. Post the size of the file here.

Ok That's 4ko


G5 MAC OS TIGER Neo office new beta version[/quote]

Nice computer!
thanxx again

James[/quote]

[Guesty]

Unfortunately, you most likely were confused by the first save box that Neo puts up on the screen for you when you went to save the file. That box is the box also used by OpenOffice (OO-o.org) that Neo is based on. It "warns" you tha some fomatting of whatever file format you chose to save the file, you were working on, in (i.e. Windows 97, 2000, XP=.doc file extension) may lose some formatting and instead if you would rather save it in NeoOffic+OO_o.org format. As James expalined above, that's .swi for a word processing docu,emt. Now only those with Noe or OO_o.org.

THis is a huge impediment to facilitate people using Neo and probably can't be changed but should be made very clear to first time users.

Here's where you may have really been confused. After you try to continue to close out of your working document or try to Quit Neo altogether, you will see a second save box pop up on screen that will ask, "Some formatting will be lost, do you still want to save?" Well, logic says NO (and that may even be the default choice save box button) so people think, "I've already saved once" and will choose NO. Bad choice, now you just threw away your whole effort on that document. Again, this SAVE DOCUMENT PROCEDURE should be POINTED TO immediately after installing Neo and BEFORE a new user uses it.

As a general precaution it is usually suggested that one save their document manually every so often/many minutes (you can turn in on in the Neo prefs (Tools? menu) even I think). If you were doing that and/or you understood the Neo/OO_o save document procedure, my apologies and disregard above but if this was the case you would not have gone through this learning curve before now unfortuneatly. This is also a common "turn off" from trying to leave the darkside (M$ Office).

[carlotta]

ok
the problem
it's me
not neo
I loose
but thanks for your help
and thanks to you and the Neo users

[Guesty]

Got distracted, meant to say above at end of 1st paragraph the following:

Now only those with Neo (or Neo/J for older Neo versions) or OO_o.org (that runs under X11 on Mac OS x) can open the .swx file. But since you have Neo, obviously, I think that you just never actually saved the file properly. Hope I'm wrong however and that you can recover it. Confused about the 'invisible" part of your statement but that may mean it's simply not there (unsaved) even though you think you did save it. Rambling now.

[Orgleser]

ehm ...
you could try to open a blank page in neo, and click onto the "load url" popup button (the build in help of neo leads you there if my english is too bad as well to help you - I would say the button is the triangle you see beneath the blank field in the upper left corner of the neo window). If you have saved something, the document should be listed there.
T.

[carlotta]

One thousand thanks but no
my file is empty
Adios
Carlotta

[Guest]

carly,

Hope you don't give up on Neo because of your initial bad experience. Like anything else, once you go through the learning curve, it's a very workable program.

[jjmckenzie51]

[carlotta]

"carly,

Hope you don't give up on Neo because of your initial bad experience. Like anything else, once you go through the learning curve, it's a very workable program."


Of course not
never give up
actually I learn