LibreOffice 7 is crashing when I load Writer on MACOS

[Trickiedickie]

I’m using MACOS 10.13.6 on an iMac. I have just downloaded LibreOffice 7.0.0 and after installation the main app window loads with recent files, Spreadsheets work fine it seems, but any attempt to load Writer results in the screen appearing, then immediately crashing, with the recovery dialog showing.

[anon73440385]

Test user profile causing the issue:

• Start LibreOffice
• Restart in Safe Mode using Help -> Restart in Safe Mode and confirm the restart using button: Restart
• Click button Continue in Safe Mode
• Open a Writer file (using File -> Open) and test whether the problem is gone

[steal3rd]

This issue is also reported here:

Libreoffice 7 Keeps Crashing

I am a current user of Libreoffice and have recently updated to version 7. Whenever I attempt to open any existing document on any of the sections the programme simply crashes and is unusable. Previous versons have been no problem at all, can anyone assist please ? I am using a macbook with Catalina version 10.15.6 .

Bilbrough’s “nuclear option” worked for me:

Libreoffice 7 Keeps Crashing

I had this happen on 2 different laptops. I opened LO in safe mode and then chose the option at the bottom to restart everything (ticked both boxes) and that worked ok albeit that it took a while to reset all my personal settings. A bit of a nuclear option I know.

[anon73440385]

@steal3rd

My first comment is about to check whether a corrupt user profile causes the problem before taking action. Otherwise it wouldn’t make sense to reset the user profile (which is what you call a nuclear option)

[steal3rd]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of details I can volunteer. I’m not sure how to manage user profiles since it’s not something I typically do. I noticed that version 7 was released so I downloaded it. I experienced the problem from the original post on the very first run.