[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 110435] New: Footnotes missing from body of all documents previously created in prior version

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110435

            Bug ID: 110435
           Summary: Footnotes missing from body of all documents
                    previously created in prior version
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.0.3 rc
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: larry.bradley at retro.management

Description:
When I purged 5.3 and installed 5.4 (Linux), then opened an existing large
document that previously had more than a hundred footnotes, the footnote
description/explanation lines existed, but the reference numbers that should
have been in the body of the document were missing entirely. Of course, one of
the results is that clicking on the footnote number in the footnote
description, information line (see example below) takes you nowhere instead of
taking you to the corresponding superscript number in the body of the document
because the superscript number no longer exists. 

Example Footnote Line: 

105 Mr. Craigmile. N. A. C. S., Seventh Annual Proceedings, 1919, p. 614. 

(This is footnote No. 105. There is no longer a corresponding, linked 105 in
the body of the document).


This is a complete and utter disaster for me, as I use LO for writing and
editing manuscripts, many of which have more than one hundred footnotes each,
not to mention that these manuscripts drafted in LO are converted to ePub and
other formats for sale by download, something that has now been rendered
impossible for me to do without many weeks or months of fixing every file that
was drafted using LO. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a document created in an earlier version of LO with LO 5.4.3
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
All the footnote "explanation / descriptive" lines in the document were there,
but they were no longer linked to their corresponding numbers in the document;
in fact the corresponding numbers no longer exist.

Expected Results:
Expected both the footnote and its corresponding "reference" number in the body
of the text to be intact.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is not a profile problem. Happens to all profiles on all my desktop
computers.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.78 Safari/537.36

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