RE: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread Virgil Arrington
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> Date: 3/31/17 3:18 PM (GMT-05:00) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread Girvin Herr
On 03/31/2017 12:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:17:30 +0100 Tom Davies dijo: Renaming the user-profile will remove all the add-ons but it's probably a good idea anyway. Copying the default.ott from the working computer was brilliant imo, as was

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats !! :)) Really good to hear you caught a few rays too. Kubuntu defaults (i think) to re-open everything on reboot and somehow i ended up with that happening in Ubuntu too - probably because i didn't want it to (good ol'Murphy). I'm not sure if it's a simple setting somewhere but i

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread Tim-L--Elmira-NY
ou'll lose any custom settings, but you'll at least know if that's your problem. Virgil Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> Date: 3/31/17 3:28 AM (GMT-05:00) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: R

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:17:30 +0100 Tom Davies dijo: >Renaming the user-profile will remove all the add-ons but it's >probably a good idea anyway. >Copying the default.ott from the working computer was brilliant imo, >as was trying to rename the previous one to see what

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:21:08 + Virgil Arrington dijo: >Before nuking everything, have you tried renaming the entire user >profile. It should be a folder called "4". Rename it "4-old". Then >restart LO. It will create a new user profile folder. You'll lose any >custom

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Renaming the user-profile will remove all the add-ons but it's probably a good idea anyway. Copying the default.ott from the working computer was brilliant imo, as was trying to rename the previous one to see what happened. I wonder if renaming the whole folder that default.ott is in might

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread jorge
Hi John: Why not open the document in Abiword and select all document, then copy (to clipboard), and open new document on Libre Office and copy there all ? I hope this help, -- Atentamente, Jorge Rodríguez El vie, 31-03-2017 a las 00:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan escribió: > On Fri,

RE: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread Virgil Arrington
rgil Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> Date: 3/31/17 3:28 AM (GMT-05:00) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt On Fri, 31 Ma

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:11:10 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 23:05:44 -0700 >John Jason Jordan dijo: > >OK, I didn't go to bed yet and tried a couple more things. One more thing, and then I'm really going to bed. With Writer open (ignoring

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

2017-03-31 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 23:05:44 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: OK, I didn't go to bed yet and tried a couple more things. I have a second computer with the same OS, the same LO, and most of the same fonts and configs on it. I placed copies of the two 'corrupt' files on a USB stick