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Was my LibreOffice hacked or accessed by outside third party?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1741362"><p>If truly "nothing" works, then sometimes a forced shutdown may be needed. I think I've done that 2-3 times in the last five years. But far too many people just assume the machine is unresponsive way too soon. In fact, it would be better to disconnect from mains and wait for the battery to die. The OS should sense the battery dying and start closing things. CMD-Tab may work to allow you to change from a stuck app to one that works and from there shutdown properly. I also keep Activity Monitor running in the background, and CMD-Tab to that will let me see what application, if any, is not responding and kill just that one application. All of those actions can and should be taken before you reach for the power switch.</p><p></p><p>A forcible shut down can leave some applications in strange states that will show up when you reboot and restart the app(witness what happens with LibreOffice, Word will also show "recovered" documents, etc.), but unless the application is in the critical task of writing out a critical file to the drive when the power dies, it <em>probably</em> won't damage the app. The hard drive is more at risk, because it may be busy with either a foreground task or a background task (like Time Machine), and if the power dies as it is updating something critical, like the directory, then the drive may well be unusable until it is reformatted (and you lose everything on it in that process). </p><p></p><p>So try to avoid the forcible shut down at all, or at least keep it to a "once in a blue moon" event. It's like Russian Roulette. You might get away with it for a long time, but the consequences can be dire.</p><p></p><p>As far as the IP is concerned, it's true that lots of applications track the IP number, and lots of information is tied to it. But when an app that has no reason to track it, like LibreOffice, does track it, then I ditch the application. I don't like it when developers do things like that. It's a bit like watching someone walk through the parking lot and stopping to look through the windows of your car. It may, and most likely is, innocent, but the first thing that comes to mind is, "Why?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1741362"] If truly "nothing" works, then sometimes a forced shutdown may be needed. I think I've done that 2-3 times in the last five years. But far too many people just assume the machine is unresponsive way too soon. In fact, it would be better to disconnect from mains and wait for the battery to die. The OS should sense the battery dying and start closing things. CMD-Tab may work to allow you to change from a stuck app to one that works and from there shutdown properly. I also keep Activity Monitor running in the background, and CMD-Tab to that will let me see what application, if any, is not responding and kill just that one application. All of those actions can and should be taken before you reach for the power switch. A forcible shut down can leave some applications in strange states that will show up when you reboot and restart the app(witness what happens with LibreOffice, Word will also show "recovered" documents, etc.), but unless the application is in the critical task of writing out a critical file to the drive when the power dies, it [I]probably[/I] won't damage the app. The hard drive is more at risk, because it may be busy with either a foreground task or a background task (like Time Machine), and if the power dies as it is updating something critical, like the directory, then the drive may well be unusable until it is reformatted (and you lose everything on it in that process). So try to avoid the forcible shut down at all, or at least keep it to a "once in a blue moon" event. It's like Russian Roulette. You might get away with it for a long time, but the consequences can be dire. As far as the IP is concerned, it's true that lots of applications track the IP number, and lots of information is tied to it. But when an app that has no reason to track it, like LibreOffice, does track it, then I ditch the application. I don't like it when developers do things like that. It's a bit like watching someone walk through the parking lot and stopping to look through the windows of your car. It may, and most likely is, innocent, but the first thing that comes to mind is, "Why?" [/QUOTE]
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