On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:47:19 -0500 B G Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just installed OO 3.4.1 and the package seems to work well. The only > problem noted thus far is that the startup process seems to take an > exceptionally long time. I'm driving a Mac Mini with 2Gb of ram at 2GHz > and have not experienced long startup delays with any other software. > The spinning CD of death is active for so long that I originally thought > the package was hung and did a force-quit. > > Long ago, the same problem occurred under MS Windows because they were > loading _all_ the fonts before opening access to the software instead of > employing a pay-as-you-go approach. Could you be encountering something > similar? Sometimes an abnormal start-up delay is because a file has been printed on a network printer, and OpenOffice is now trying to connect to that printer. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
