[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136160] Chart displays incorrectly, but, if I double-click on it to edit, it then displays correctly (EDITING)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136160

--- Comment #5 from matthewnote at yahoo.co.uk ---
(In reply to SRS from comment #4)
> Thanks for looking at this, Matthew.  I wanted to see if I could do as you
> asked, creating a file with a working chart and a non-working chart from the
> same data.  But I wasn't able to recreate the bug at all!  My error.xlsx
> file didn't exhibit the problem.
> I realized I had upgraded from 6.3.6.2 to 6.4.6.2, so I downgraded back to
> 6.3.6.2.  The problem still didn't appear!
> For what it's worth, when I first saw the problem, back in August, I tried
> copying the chart.  The copied chart worked correctly and I even deleted the
> original and replaced it with the copied chart; there was no problem at that
> point.  Also, saving and re-opening the file made the problem go away.
> I am now going to upgrade to v7 and check out the problem.  If I see it
> again, I'll do some tests and update the bug.
> Maybe there is some random state introduced whenever I install LibreOffice
> that controls whether this bug happens?

Hello SRS

Thankyou for looking again.
Bug Report 86321 has followed this problem since 2014.
Changing versions or modifying files (edit, copy sheet, save and so forth) can
break something that was working before.  Very difficult to pin down.  However
we have contributed two obviously/consistently damaged .ods files on that Bug
Report.  The long term problem is how to share the report with colleagues or
even students?  The new chief of development marketing of LibreOffice comments
that the category "minor" yet still "Most Annoying Bug" includes the problem of
loss of reputation (LibreOffice) or inability to share files (Users).  So we
will hope to make progress by boosting the priority to "Normal" and
contribute/wait.

This problem nearly always comes back.  AppImage versions of Calc can
immediately (mostly) open and save suspect files with everything working. 
However, that rescue and repair tool is a "runs in a box, nothing installs"
package for Linux.  To my knowledge, there's no equivalent super-app like that
for Windows.

Would you mind looking once at that Bug 86321 (needs 15 minutes to read all of
it) and contribute there if/when you see problems in future?  All on the same
page, as it were.  For the moment we are a Steel Construction Engineer, a
Doctorate of Nuclear Medecine and I (Signal Processing Engineer analysing
Cancer Diabetes data).  136254 was also started but the contributor hasn't yet
responded.

OK with you then that I change the status here to "duplicate of 86321"?
Note: bugzilla then marks it as "resolved-duplicate" too (which it isn't). 
Just closing this thread (still visible and readable) here will redirect other
Users to look at the full history (with developers' reactions or none) and
concentrate the reporting that is seen by all.  Up to you.

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