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several times now, I've had a document with very large parts of the content simply disappearing. I have Ubuntu (precise pangolin) a few days now. all of the years with windows, I never encountered this-very unpleasant-problem. Anyone knows a solution?

Type document: docx; Which Ubuntu: Precise Pangolin LTS. &In the meantime, I'm discovering more & more documents like that with very large parts of the concent just... vanished :-(( A very 'dangereous' situation :-(

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Can you supply more info? What type of document? Which Ubuntu release are you using? – Mitch Jul 11 '12 at 5:55
What do you mean by dissappearing? Is the document stored in your home folder and it has dissapeared. Or, are you able to open the document and it dissapears off the screen but it still exist in your home folder? – Stephen Myall Jul 11 '12 at 15:12
Also, are you saving any files to folders with a period "." at the start of its name for example .mydocuments. If so these folders are hidden and may give the perception of files dissapearing, but they are not – Stephen Myall Jul 11 '12 at 15:13
No, the files themselves do not dissapear. for exemple, there are 15 pages text. And when I open the document, only the first 1 or 2 are still there... the rest dissapeared. – Koen_vdp Jul 11 '12 at 17:38
This may be a screen refresh issue, rather that content disappearing. This gives a perception than content is not there, but it's only on the screen. What type of graphics card is in your computer. I will investigate more when known – Stephen Myall Jul 11 '12 at 17:57
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