"Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed."

macOS Sierra 10.12.4, MacBook Pro early 2015
LibreOffice 5.3.2.2 (and 5.2.6)

LibreOffice Writer keeps crashing for no apparent reason. While everything seems to be fine when working on an odt file, suddenly, out of the blue, LO crashes. The crash never really seems to be related to a particular task – maybe I was just typing text, or I was navigating the document, or I was changing a setting – and it occurs from anything within a few seconds to a few hours working on a file (that is, several times a day). The file may be a new one (with almost nothing in it yet) or an existing one. It happens both with the fresh and the still versions of LO.

Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed. All the files you were working on will now be saved.

I tried downloading Apache OpenOffice and using it, but OO behaves much in the same way in that it crashes unexpectedly. All other software works fine here.

On the positive side, Document Recovery works fine always, I don’t seem to have lost any data so far.

I’d be very grateful if someone could point me to a solution.

Please try resetting the user profile, sometimes solves strange issues.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Usually it’s enough renaming/deleting the file “user/registrymodifications.xcu”, it affects all the options in Menu/Tools/Options, and the files “user/basic/dialog.xlc” and “scrip.xlc” are overwritten, additionally custom colors in “user/config/standard.soc” are lost.

Thank you! Having followed the steps as given in the help page you linked to, I was using LO in safe mode, and the problem seemed to have gone indeed.

I have now deleted the file “registrymodifications.xcu” and hope the problem will be gone forever.

Unfortunately, it took only a few days for the mysterious crashes to resurge. I’m on 5.3.5.2 now, and LO continues to keep crashing. I really wish to have it work smoothly. Any tips?

Please test with Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode