Documents not open from subfolder

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Blisk
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Documents not open from subfolder

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I have windows 10 and Open Office 4.1.6
When I try to open the document from about 4th subfolder I just get open office logo after 1 second it disappears and nothing happened.
If I copy the same document to desktop and open from there than it works.
What can ve wrong???
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RoryOF
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Re: documents not open from subfolder

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Check that there are no ethnic characters in the file path, or spaces, or that the total path and filename are not longer than 255 characters.
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Blisk
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Re: documents not open from subfolder

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there are spaces in path, but that use to work on windows 7.
now on windows 10 doesn't
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Re: documents not open from subfolder

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As an experiment, try, from a console (command prompt)

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soffice "/the/full/path/to/the/file/Filename.odt"
Note the quotes.
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