On 18-Apr-2011, at 23:58, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> I have an application that behaves weirdly on my account but works fine on 
> the guest account as well as on a second account on the same machine.
> 
> My guess is thus that the problem comes from issues with my local files.
> 
> So, I put aside everything in Library that was not required by the system, 
> rebooted, but the application still won't work.
> 
> I've also put aside all the dotted preference files that I could find from 
> the command line, rebooted again, but the application still won't work 
> correctly.
> 
> What else could I try ?

Move ~/Library to ~/Library.bak and reboot. Did you look in 
~/Library/Application Support/? Also, some misbehaved apps but their folders 
right into ~/Library/ (though mostly Apple and Mozilla apps do this). 

If it still doesn’t work, the files that are causing the problem aren't in 
~/Library, if it does work, you missed something.

I seem to recall that I found OpeneOffice littered a lot of stuff on my drive, 
and I was still finding errant files years after I un-intstalled it.

> ps: The application is OpenOffice.org (and LibreOffice) and the bug is: when 
> I write a file name with non ascii letters then the non ascii parts are 
> replaced with "?" and when I try to open a file with non ascii characters in 
> the path then the application says that the file does not exist. NeoOffice 
> does not show that behavior.

Huh, that's a new one on me. Sounds like the Open/Save in OOo is not 
understanding UTF-8. No clue what might have caused that.


-- 
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