Apache OpenOffice Community Forum

Welcome beginner. Please answer all of the questions below which may provide information necessary to answer your question.
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Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using? Not sure
What Operating System (version) are you using? Mac OS X.4
What is your question or comment? I have had to re- install Open Office and now it will not load. I have re- downloaded the softward today and re-installed X11 but no luck. I try and open a document made when I previously had Open Office and X11 loads but OpenOffice does not.
Please advise what to do next

Have you tried re-naming your user settings folder? Make sure all OO processes, including any quick starter, are closed first. Sometimes inexplicable errors are inexplicably caused by some unknown error in that folder.

Dear Kingfisher

I am sorry to be stupid but where is my User Settings folder? - Is it in the Library, I can't find it... Also how do I determine OO settings if Icannot open it? I am sorry to be so ignorant

thanks for your response

fsgd

I also cannot get OpenOffice to start up. I am running MacOS10,5,2, and trying to run OpenOffice 2.4. I also had the same problem with OpenOff 2.3.1. Previously OpenOffice 2.3.1 had run properly. Now it appears in the processes, but does not open, and cannot open .odt files.

I removed all traces of OpenOffice from
myaccount/Library/Preferences and
myaccount/Library/Application Support
There are no apparent OpenOffice files in root/Library/Preferences OR Application Support

I then Opened X11 first, as described in an OpenOffice FAQ, and tried to open OpenOffice.org 2.4.app without success. The BMW symbol rotates for awhile, very slowly, and then stops. I have to force quit OpenOffice.org, as OpenOffice.org, while displaying a dropdown menu for quit, will quit neither from the menu or with CMD-Q.

Added 14 April 2008

I also
- repaired my Boot Disk with DiskWarrior
- exercised a number of terminal commands recommended in another Forum entry to identify and terminate 'hung' processes associated with OpenOffice.org - there were no such processes - I am unable to again find that Forum entry to reference it.

X11 is XQuartz 2.1.4 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple10)

OpenOffice.org still behaves as described above.


NeoOffice 2.2.3 with Patch-1 does run.

I, too am unable to open OpenOffice since the last 2 versions (2.2, 2.3). I am about ready to give up. I have X11. It is installed. It is open. OpenOffice appears but only as a script. What is that?
Why can I open 2.1 but nothing after that???
CAN SOMEONE HELP PLEASE?


I have PPC G4, OS 10.4.11

To silverhammer - recommend you try NeoOffice 2.2.3, it seems to run for me while, as described above OpenOffice does not. I have not done any work with NeoOffice 2.2.3 yet, but it seems to open my .odt files.

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php