topic DOCX Upload Failing in Alfresco Archive

DOCX Upload Failing

sclayton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:10:31 GMT

We're using Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 installed from http://process.alfresco.com/ccdl/?file=release/community/build-2039/Alfresco-Community-3.2-Linux-x86-Installalfresco log shows the following when starting alfresco:Alfresco started (Community): Current version 3.2.0 (2039) schema 2019 - Insta

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

ddompe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:05:24 GMT

Same problem here, also for any .doc file. Clueless about how to fix it so far.

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

mikeh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:15:38 GMT

Are there any other errors on startup? Is OpenOffice installed and working on the server?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

ofrxnz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:34:33 GMT

I had a similar issue….The problem was i was running OpenOffice 2.x. As a result, when Share tried to convert the document with OOO on the upload (i believe to make the thumbnail). It failed since OOO 2.x chokes when you try to open DOCX formats.

This was fixed by upgrading to OOO 3.2

Adam

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

tushagarwal — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:52:37 GMT

i have the Latest Open Office Version on my Server. The Client i have is using Open Office 2.4. When i try uploading a file with xlsx extension it fails. I am not sure where to check for the error.

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

ltmert — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:12:23 GMT

I have 3.2 installed. I could be able to upload docx. Till last week. Now it just waits and waits. Was there a new update recently. Did not have any change so far.

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

sselvan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:39:12 GMT

Are you facing issues in all uploads on only on MS Office 2007 files?
What browser you are using? Just in case - upgrade your Adobe Flash Player also and remove your browser cache and then try uploading - it helped me for some other format of files, though not for 2007 files.

Hope this is helpful!

Thank you

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

ssaravanan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:39:57 GMT

I have the same issue with microsoft office 2007 documents alone.
The client uses big excel files, which hangs Alfresco completely, no error in the logs as well,
so we had to completely disable indexing for all microsoft office 2007 documents, I know which is
kind of weired, by the way, it was on Alfresco 3.0d community edition.

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

nickswift — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:18:28 GMT

I had a similar experience with Alfresco 3.2 and OpenOffice 3.2 on Lucid.

The only way I could fix it was to get the latest release candidate debs from openoffice (3.2.1).

This worked a treat and I can now upload Office 2007 documents.

Nick

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

mikeh — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:07:39 GMT

I had a similar experience with Alfresco 3.2 and OpenOffice 3.2 on Lucid.

The only way I could fix it was to get the latest release candidate debs from openoffice (3.2.1).

This worked a treat and I can now upload Office 2007 documents.

Nick

Thanks for the feedback, Nick.

Mike

Re: DOCX Upload Failing

ssaravanan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:12:20 GMT

The latest release candidate debs from openoffice (3.2.1) fixes this issue.
Thanks for the feedback. I followed this article for openoffice installation
was very useful http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-openoffice-org-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/