I have been using Libre Office for several years to create a club Magazine on an i Mac running Catalina. I could always create the text and then insert the images with text wrap. The version was 7.0.0.0 so thought I would update it to a later version 25.2.2.1. Now I find I cannot insert an image into a text document. I get a dialog box wanting to insert a section. Have tried inserting a frame and inserting an image but with the same result. If i try deleting the section it tells me it cannot delete it is write protected. I tried to use the original version of LO but now that has the same action. Advice needed please.
A new version without any bug fixes is what the final 0âs mean. It was not intended for long term work but to distribute to those brave enough to try it and report any bugs they found. There would have been a stable version available, 6.4.7.2, I suppose. Anyway, best to upgrade, the current stable version on the libreoffice.org site is shown as 25.2.7.
I suspect that the user profile has been corrupted. Try LibreOffice in Safe Mode: click Help > Restart in Safe Mode > Continue in Safe mode and then try adding images.
If it works as before then you probably need to reset the user profile. I suggest to use the Manual method as you can restore most of your templates, customisations and user dictionaries. See LibreOffice user profile - The Document Foundation Wiki
ErnestAl - thanks for the reply.
I have tried safe mode but it still didnât let me install a pic in a text document and it wouldnât accept drag and drop of the file I have been working on. I have never created a user profile and there is not one available in Mac 'system preferencesâ. Is there an automatic profile somewhere?
I downloaded 25.2.7 but when trying to open it said I need OS 11 or above. Iâm running 10.15.7 so the highest I can go is 25.2.2.
I have to point out that Iâm not skilled with computers having to use them at work for the first time in the 90âs and of course had IT to sort problems. Now trying to do this long after retirement is a challenge! My Mac was purchased in 2012 and I was hoping not to have to buy another at my age - so I struggle with updates. Libre Office and Open Office have been very good until there was glitch with 7.0.0.0. A couple of you advisers helped me learn how to register a data base. I thought updating LO might solve problems but unfortunately have made thing worse. Should I revert to 7?
What I have found now is that trying to insert a pic in either 25.2.2 7.0.0.0 or Open Office results in the same problem, installing a section.
macOS has three user folders by default: admin, user, and guest. (I removed âguestâ).
Never change a well-functioning system!
The âadminâ has access to all system components, such as programs, which neither the âuserâ nor a âguestâ has. The âuserâ has access to their own folder, and only they! The permissions for subfolders and files can be configured and changed. I suspect you donât have the necessary permissions to modify a file, but you do have permission to read it.
As the âuserâ I cannot access the locked âadminâ folders.
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Yes, the profile is the place where LibreOffice stores YOUR configuration, like changes in menu, your own shortcuts for keyboard, macros etc. You should be able to find it at this path
~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/user
Path is cited from wiki:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Wanderer - thank you. This is getting more complicated by the minute! Way above my pay grade as they say. Attached screen shots show I believe I have never set ups use profile or made any changes whatsoever to a âuser profileâ nothing appears if I click on the path.
As you can see the user data is completely blank.
Now I cannot get LO out of safe mode. Tried restart in safe mode and then restart in normal mode - still opened in safe mode so cannot open any files.
Starting to think there is a fatal error in the programs and perhaps I should delete all LO versions and Open Office and then download a new version of 25.2.2 which is the highest I can install on Mac OS 10.15.7
koyotak thank you. Have opened Mac HD as you see Iâm the only user and have not changed or added any shortcuts. I use the OS only as allowed.
You might have to give full disc access to the new version of LibreOffice. Try this first with the new installation.
The Paths show you where your user profile is, from what I can make out from your screenshot your profile is the user folder at /Users/chrisâŚ/Library/Application Support/LibreOfficeDev/4/.
That was a Dev version of 7.0.0.0, definitely not for general use. It has its own user profile and shouldnât affect a normal installation unless maybe both are open at the same time.
YIn that case, you probably have two versions of LibreOffice installed plus OO. The user profile for the second LibreOffice installation would be at /Users/chrisâŚ/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/, that is, without the Dev in the folder name. The profile for the OpenOffice installation would be at /Users/chrisâŚ/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice/3/
First, look at this page to see the highest version, 25.8.x.x, you can install, Documentation/System Requirements - The Document Foundation Wiki
Second, deleting the installation will leave the user profiles untouched.
Where are you inserting the image from? If it is from a webpage/email then it might end up in a section.
If you click Insert > Image and choose a jpg, png, or other supported image type that is saved on your hard disk then it should insert correctly.
EarnestAl - thank you. I believe I have solved the problem!
As you said it should accept an image as jpg or png etc. Someone had sent me photos from a non apple device which are .heic - so that was why it kept trying to insert a section! I tried one of my jpeg and dragged and dropped as normal. I cannot convert .heic to jpeg so I saved as pdf and dropped the photos into the text ok but - big problems editing and painfully slow saving. Will have to try to find a way to covert .heic.
Also as you pointed out I probably had two versions of Libre office open at once - correct. I was nervous about deleting LO 7 Dev because I thought LO 25 was an update and needed some of the information from LO 7(my fuzzy logic!) As you said LO 7 is not a real program so I bit the bullet and deleted LO 7 from the apps folder. All good.
Although the page you suggested says that I can download LO 28 to this Mac - I had previously tried and it loaded up OK. But when I tried to use it, it said I needed OS 11 and above. So the info is not quite correct. With OS 10.15 the best I can get that works is 25.2.2.
I could not understand the paths you pointed out - can see them but not sure what to do with them or how to give full disc access.
It seems to be Ok now but the test will come when I register a data base and try to print envelopes - which is what started me on this in the first place.
Many thanks to yourself and the other advisers who have patiently replied to my basic questions.
Treker71
Update on converting .heic to .jpeg. Open in Preview on a Mac and export as jpeg - simple.