JuergThuering wrote:And I am still persuaded it is NOT a problem of my computer (or many would have a problem, there is nothing "non-standard" and the installation is clean.
Of course your PC is "non-standard" - it is unique because you run different software to me and to everyone else. I have 20 programs which run when the PC starts and you have different programs. My PC currently has 190 running processes, 2,173 threads and 197,317 handles even though the only foreground applications I have running are Firefox, Thunderbird and TaskManager. Is yours identical?
Remember
your AOO and my AOO are absolutely identical so if it is, as you insist, AOO software causing the problem, why do you get it and I do not? It must be something external to AOO.
There have been 300,000,000 downloads of AOO very few of whom - I'll be generous and say 0.0000001% - report this problem.
Their PCs are unique in the programs they run, the utilities they use (clipboard managers are known to cause issues) and the way they use their PCs. And we haven't even considered things like a faulty bit in memory or on your disk where AOO files reside. Or the fact it may be a corrupted AOO file on your PC. Or a virus or piece of malware - see
Re: PDF in OpenOffice, font problem where a PUP malware interfered with AOO.
It is why you are asked to do a test in Safe Mode because none of those 20 programs of mine are started and we both then have much more similar, but still not identical, systems (eg device drivers are still different). It is why you are asked if it is always the same file causing the problem. Why you are asked to reset your profile. Why you are asked to run sfc and chkdsk. Why you are asked to uninstall AOO and re-install after downloading it
from this web site. Why you are asked if your OS is fully up to date - a recent faulty W10 update crashed Calc until Microsoft corrected and re-issued it. Other recent faulty W10 updates caused the AOO printer to fail as the update installed incorrect printer drivers. And don't get me started on Windows Defender which, depending on
your installation and preferences and other AV software, may or may not cripple AOO and LO. All these are trying to identify and correct
differences between your PC and mine.
Let me give you an analogy. You read about a car where 99.9999999% of owners find the car always starts and runs happily but 0.0000001% say the car starts and always immediately stalls.
Who would you believe?
- one of the 0.0000001% who said the car design is obviously faulty because the car stalls for them?
- someone who said there was almost certainly something different about the 0.0000001% of owners' cars which stall: they weren't being serviced properly, they had faulty components which the other cars did not have, their battery was flat, their petrol was sub-standard, the cars were being used out of their specification, they weren't being driven properly, etc?
That being said moving to LO, as I did this year, is extremely sensible as AOO is walking dead.
As an aside there probably is a bug in AOO which allows clipboards to interfere with AOO. But, in order to activate this bug, you need to have an application which causes that interference and, as I don't use that application, I never see the bug. As we are users like you, and not developers, we cannot delve into the code and we can only provide guidance based on our experience to get you back working. That guidance is what you see here: isolate what is different on your PC so as to stop the interaction.