Re: [libreoffice-users] Permanent state of recovery with non-existent document

Hi :)
I'm not sure about the 3rd option but there might be a very inelegant way of 
fixing it, possibly a 4th option.

Rename the user-profile / config folder so that you get back to "factory 
defaults" as though it was a fresh install of LO on a new system.  


In linux you could try this on the command-line
sudo mv /home/username/.libreoffice/user/3 
/home/username/.libreoffice/user/2011-08-04
This forces LibreOffice to create a fresh new /home/...blah-blah.../3 but you 
can always copy your extensions and stuff back from the new folder that is in 
reverse date.  But it does assume you use the default path in linux.  


You can find the real path in whichever operating system by opening LibreOffice 
then
Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Path
Then just use any normal file-browser and right click on the relevant folder to 
rename it.
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Sigrid Carrera <sigrid.carrera@googlemail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 11:30:43
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Permanent state of recovery with non-existent 
document

Hi, 

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:18:16 -0700
MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Once, a long time ago, I tried to open a .pps file with LO, and it
> crashed LO - every single time.  I deleted the document and yet every
> time I start LO, it tries to recover this non-existent document.
>
> I think this started back in release 3.2 or 3.3, and I'm now running
> 3.4.0 (about to upgrade to 3.4.2).
>
> How do I stop this from happening?

You have a few options: 

1) You can press cancel the next time you start LibreOffice. This should end the 
endless recovery process. 


2) You could check in the directory where the offending file was, if you see 
there a (hidden - so you might want to activate the "show hidden files" option) 
file with a similar name that ends in *.lock
Delete this file and the recovery process should not be started the next time. 

3) I think, that there is a third option, that you can start LibO from the 
commandline with the -norestore option, but I'm not 100 % sure about this.


Sigrid

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