[Solved] Templates dialogue switches up a level

[sherbert]

In Libre Office, (it came with Linux Mint 11 Katya, I was using Oo.o) and only a recent development, starting a new document from templates (path = /home/shane/templates) returns a dialogue which momentarily displays my list of templates (screenshot 01) before switching up a level (screenshot 02). I've fiddled with every possible setting. I always use keystrokes, so alt-F, n, n" should bring me to my template folder and 'm' again should start my standard memo.

this is what I expect to see . . .

but 1 second later this appears . . .

I appreciate this is trivial and easy to work around. However, I want to get LibreOffice going as well as OpenOffice does, in this respect at least. I also have window focus issues which I will not raise here.
thanks
Shane Herbert
New Plymouth
New Zealand

[Hagar Delest]

I've not checked with LibO myself yet but you can try to reset your OOo user profile.

If no change, installing the vanilla version of Libo may fix it, see [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co., the same process applies to LibO.

Please add '[Solved]' at the beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[franx]

That's a known bug since LibreOffice 3.4.0 release, see:

→ Bug 37593 - "File > New > Template" no longer remembers my last open folder
[Status: NEW]

→ Bug 38009 - Templates & Documents Dialog - No Longer Remembers 'My Templates' Location
[Status: DUPLICATE]

[sherbert]

Yes, thank you, resetting the user profile resolved the issue. Of course, for those of us who have gone over to LibreOffice, the profile is located in /home/<username>/.libreoffice/user instead of /home/<username>/.openoffice/user.
Thanks Hagar, you nailed it in one.