https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152859

--- Comment #11 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> ---
My guess is this.

Initialization of the LO Finder dialog appears to be a fork() in the main LO
process. Whenever a network resource is unavailable, that fork appears to fail
to return to the main LO process, causing a hang instead of gracefully handling
the situation by presenting a helpful message to the user such as "Network
resource unavailable, please mount the network resource and try again", closing
the Finder dialog and returning to the main LO UI which should regain the
focus.

The additional question to be solved would be how to manage the time it takes
Finder to realize that the network resource is unavailable.

As anyone who works with macOS in a networked environment knows, accessing
remote files can variously take between a few seconds, and several minutes,
depending on the remote file system being accessed. I doubt that the LO process
can have any influence on those timeouts.

I imagine that one way around this would be to use the native LO dialogs and
define a shorter timeout there, but then the user would lose the convenience of
the Finder dialog and obviously the UI experience.

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