Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google calc trouble Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:19:38 +0200 Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <111vp0v$stoi$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net WcvyH2KBCJwPE7SpCFYJHgRG6yR03gpMas3Z6h2XrKPLfOc5+Y Cancel-Lock: sha1:mm57R0yO3refWmLBNiP5U5ymhgI= sha256:O48N0c+a/4z4W7aRuimBLyFalghZXpVk5sH75+AJZcw= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <111vp0v$stoi$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154314 On 2026-06-30 08:51, Arno Welzel wrote: > Carlos E. R., 2026-06-29 11:53: > >> I have been using Google Calc spread sheet for some years, to track how >> much gasoline I buy for the car, and how many kilometres it does. >> >> Well, one day it lost me entries. It said there was some sync problem, >> maybe it had stored a local copy that did not match the cloud version. >> Now that file is impossible to open in the phone, it stalls. I could >> open it on the computer and save to a different name, but one or two >> lines are lost. >> >> It's done it again. Can't open the file in the phone. > > That's the reason, why we have a thing called "backup" ;-). Seriously? How would I do a backup while driving? I could tell Google Calc to do a backup copy of the sheet I just used, and both would probably be broken, as the software is problematic. How do you do a backup of a file that has been corrupted the instant you use it? The last line will always be lost. > >> The file is simple, some 400 lines and a dozen of columns with two >> trivial formulas. >> >> So I searched for an alternative. ChatGPT told me of Collabora Office, >> both in F-droid and Google play. Turns out it is not directly on >> F-droid, so google play it is. > > There is also OpenOffice for Android which works quite well: > > No, there is not. It is a viewer only. > >> Opened the file just fine in the computer (FFx opening session on >> Google), click download to ODS format, check the local file in Libre >> Office Calc, use the USB cable to transfer to the phone, done. Now the >> spreadsheet is a local file on the phone. Maybe I could use it via >> Google Drive. We'll see. >> >> >> But the question is, have people been having problems with Google Calc >> on Android phones? > > I never used Google Office products in my life, so I can't tell. Sigh. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;