I have been using OpenOffice for months. Now when I open up the application, I get a pop up window with the message that "The application Open Office quit unexpectedly while trying to restore its window. Do you want to try to restore its window again?
" When I click restore, nothing happens, when I click don't restore, nothing happens, and I am not able to use or quit the program because the window remains. I have trashed the application and re-downloaded it, same problem.
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1Do you mean Libre Office or did you actually install Open Office?– GoddardOct 1, 2012 at 18:11
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Which version of Ubuntu? Do you have LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or both on your computer?– david6Nov 19, 2012 at 11:01
1 Answer
I will assume you are using the newer libreoffice. For openoffice the procedure will be similar, but the names and directories will be different.
It sounds like some setting kept in one of the hidden files used by libreoffice is troubling the program. More specifically the software knows about a document which it needs to recover but has trouble doing.
libreoffice puts settings in a directory libreoffice, which sits in .config in your user's directory.
if you start a terminal and issue ls .config/libreoffice
you should see some result (on my computer i get a directory named 3
).
By issuing the command mv ~/.config/libreoffice ~/.config/libreoffice_BAK
and then restarting libreoffice, libreoffice should start with a clean slate and at least should allow you to use it.
PS. for openoffice i believe the settings directory may be located in ~/.openoffice but this could also be ~/.config/openoffice