I’m trying to open files in the Word Processing program (in both version 4.4.5 and 5.0). But it keeps going to recover documents and when I click finish the action of recover just repeats over and over but the document is not opened. When I close the program I get the error message – Fatal error, bad allocation. What is the problem and how can I correct this?
There are lock-files created at LO startup (one in the same dir/folder as the document, the other within your personal Profile dir/folder) which, if not removed at close-down, tell LO at the next startup that you have a document that needs to be recovered. However, the first thing to do with weirdness like this is to rename your Profile:
Restore a Default Profile
Restore a Default Profile (the actions below are easily reversible). When you uninstall/update LO/OO it does NOT uninstall/delete the profile. The profile contains a user’s setup.
“If you notice any strange behaviour on LibreOffice, or simply it fails to start, the first thing to try is to reset the user profile.”
- Shut down LO/OO (also quickstarter)
- Find your profile
- Rename the dir
- Restart LO and/or Quickstarter
(on restart, LO will re-create the Profile directory + contents, using full defaults)
Finally, remove any lock-file within the document directory (you will need to enable “searching for hidden files” within your OS). Now with a default Profile that weird behaviour should simply go away (although, of course, if the document is corrupted then it will not open correctly).
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