I upgraded my MacBook Pro (2012 version) to OSx Catalina. I installed Libre Office 6.2, but I got the message that Apple couldn’t verify that the program was “safe” so it wouldn’t open it. I installed Libre 6.3, and I am able to open or create spreadsheets or documents, but I cannot save them.When I do a save as, for example, with a spreadsheet, I get the spinning colored ball, and then nothing – no dialog box to name the file or save it. Just goes back to editing. I am saving on my own MacBook HD, not network.
In LO preferences, Open/Save Dialogs, the Use LibreOffice dialogs box must be checked.
This works and is better than other approaches involving turning off security.
One note: The setting is "Libre Office Menu/Preferences/LibreOffice/General/Open Save Dialogs/Use LibreOffice dialogs.
Try to remove the quarantine flag from the app with:
$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreOffice.app/
MacOS Catalina now tracks and taints data from unknown locations (e.g. web downloads).
In this case, the app is not yet trusted and is put in quarantine, as seen here:
$ xattr /Applications/LibreOffice.app
com.apple.quarantine
Another way to fix the problem is to go to the Security Settings, select the Full disk access and allow LibreOffice, which is the answer to macos-catalina-libre-office-writer-will-not-save-files
It’s odd that quarantine would be an issue, given that LibreOffice can open and write existing documents. And, as GregE says, using the LibreOffice dialogs also gets around the problem.
Same for full disk access. LibreOffice can definitely write to that directory with LO dialogs enabled, so it’s not the LO can’t write to the directory due to permissions.
This works! And does not suffer from having to turn off security by granting full disk access.
One note: The setting is found under LibreOffice Menu/Preferences/LibreOffice/General/Open Save Dialogs/Use LibreOffice Dialogs
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