Issue 192: recoll opens a copy of the LibeOffice file instead of the original

After upgrading Ubntu to the version 14.04 Recoll opens copies of LibreOffice Files fromthe result-list in the /tmp folder instead of the original files. This copies havre names like for exemple fileJR3y1A. I have rebuilt the index, but the problem is still there. PDF-files are not affected.

Hi, and thanks for reporting this.

I can’t seem to be able to reproduce the issue. Are you sure that the documents are not actually archive members, email attachments, or any other kind of embedded document?

Recoll is forced to open a temp file in this case.

What does "show in folder" do ? For an embedded document, it should show the parent directory for the archive or folder file.

Cheers,

jf

Thank you for the answer. By clicking on "Open Parent document/folder" It shows the content of the folder, where the original file is stored in a Firefox-window. The documents are normal *.odt and *.ods. files in the "~/Documents/ folder or in a subfolder of it. They are no e-mail atachemnentas or something like that.

Sorry, I had read your text too fast. We’re talking about the recoll GUI, not the Unity Lens where it’s quite difficulty to actually know where a result lives…

I can’t reproduce the problem with recoll 1.19.12

First things first: what recoll version are you using ?

Recoll 1.17.3 + Xapian 1.2.16 installed from the Ubuntu repository. LibreOffice 4.2.3.3 (AMD64)

Can’t reproduce with the regular 1.17 version either.

Anything special in your config files ? Inside ~/.recoll: mimeconf, mimemap, mimeview, recoll.conf. (The default files are all identical with just a comment, and 440 bytes in size).

I have updated Recoll to the version 1.19.12pl and the problem still exist.

I found the problem. The command to open LO text documents and spreadsheets is not "libreoffice", but libreoffice4.2 So I had to change the entries in Preferences >GUI configuration >Choose editor applications. Now all works fine.

Ok, it’s great it works (I still don’t understand why it was creating temp files, but, whatever…).

I take that you don’t use the "Use desktop preferences" option then (it would probably have avoided the problem by letting the desktop deal with the app choice).

In 1.19, you can set this option and still set exceptions for selected types, so it’s become more usable.

Local configuration issue

I had this option "by default", but after unchecking it I noticed, that the command is "libreoffice", but I have installed LO manually from DEB files, not from repo. Erlier I had Abiword as a standard Text editor, but I have removed it. Maybe it was the couse of the problem.

Thanks for the info, we’ll try to corroborate next time something like this happens.

Cheers, jf

OK. Thank you! :)