None of the current versions of LibreOffice performs acceptably in Sierra. To do anything gets the Mac spinning ball. While things work eventually, it takes forever and is essentially non-usable as currently operating. By contrast, OpenOffice 4.1.2 and NeoOffice work great and are fast. I would like to stick with LibreOffice, but I hope these issues can be fixed.
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.
Resetting the profile didn’t do it for me on Sierra (10.12) and LO 5.2.2. Cheers!
Having your hardware config might help, if only to eliminate other potential known issues. Also, whether or not you have, or are attempting to acess your files over a network share. Otherwise, I can not confirm any particularly debilitating slowness, and I have LO52 running on Sierra with a Mac-min 2010 and a MBPro 2013. While the Mac mini is slow generally since the upgrade to Sierra, LO isn’t noticeably even more slow than it was before the upgrade to 10.12. On the MBPro, performance is OK
Same here: clean install of Sierra and Libreoffice 5.2.2.2 on a Macbookpro 15 inch with 27 inch Mac screen. 2.7 Ghz 8 Gb memory. Reset user profile, no improvement. Libre office very very slow and spinning ball pretty much alll the time. Resetting to RGb profile also didn’t help
I just downloaded libreoffice 5.2.4 on my mac and it is just unusable. Every time I try to open libreoffice it just hangs with “Verifying LibreOffice”. It also slows my whole machine - I just almost can not do anything. I had 4.something before and it worked fine.
My mac is 2.9GHz with 8G memory.
Sad, but true. See my answer below from yesterday. You may need to try NeoOffice or OpenOffice until something changes.
I see the problem on a Macbook with a second screen, but not an IMac using just the internal screen. Maybe this relates to the Mac screen focus switching?
The behavior is the same whether I am using the MacBook Pro without an external monitor or with an external monitor. Also, we have a new iMac and it has the same problem.
How much memory do you have allocated? Menu> Tools Options LibreOffice Memory Try increasing it. Not sure it will fix issues, just something to look at. (How much memory do you have on your box? Is it system memory, or a SD card?) … Can you look at your processes and see how much of the CPU LO is using? Is it mostly just waiting, or is it grinding on the CPU hard?
Same issue here. MBP 13" Late 2013. Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3. LO 5.3.1.2 build e80a0e0fd1875e1696614d24c32df0f95f03deb2.
Hi there, Unfortunately what I see here is a typical unix person answer, asking to reset things, play with parameters, some shell commands…an so on…
The bottom line is. I just freshly installed Sierra on a formatted drive. Freshly installed a fresh copy of libreoffice… UNWORKABLE… period. I am not going to try things until you folks who are dealing with programming fix it. Do not suggest me a get around. İmplement it in a software fix.
I am a cs professor 50 yrs old, 30yrs unix user
I have installed LO 5.3.2.1 on my MBA 2011 running Sierra 10.12.3. This is a new SSD, new install of Sierra. Accessing files on hard drive only. Only using Writer and files are not large. Every few minutes of use results in program freezing, and CPU is exceeding 100% for 3 or minutes at a time. Tried resetting user profile (as outlined above), increasing available memory to the program. Have to revert back to earlier version of LO. Until fixed this problem should be noted on download site.
Under “Resolving Corruption” )LibreOffice user profile - The Document Foundation Wiki)
“Many problems in LibreOffice can be caused by corruption in the user profile. When noticing strange behavior in LibreOffice the first thing to do is to reset the user profile. To do so, follow these steps:”…this section does not even really explain how to reset the profile.
Isolate your doc styles “applied styles”. select each one 'modify…" and make sure you’re not using proportionate scaling. Try 1 lines to test. Under line spacing part of indents and spacing. I just figured this out and had to share it!!!
Which versions of LO are you using? Your advice is not relevant to Mac OS 10.11.4 and LibreOffice 5.4.0.3
Hi there, Unfortunately what I see here is a typical unix person answer, asking to reset things, play with parameters, some shell commands…an so on…
The bottom line is. I just freshly installed Sierra on a formatted drive. Freshly installed a fresh copy of libreoffice… UNWORKABLE… period. I am not going to try things until you folks who are dealing with programming fix it. Do not suggest me a get around. İmplement it in a software fix.
I am a cs professor 50 yrs old, 30yrs unix user
In my case, the sluggish speed was indeed related to an external monitor being attached and mirrored.
After disconnecting the external monitor and restarting LO, it was drastically faster.
LO 5.2.5.1, Mac OS X 10.10.5 .
ubiquitous spinning wheel with every function with LibreOffice 5.3.1.2 on Mac Sierra 10.12.5. Going back to Open Office which outperforms LO on speed.
I also found that the solution is to install Open Office which does not have the general slowness issue. I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 on a MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013, 16GB of RAM, no external monitor.
I hope the LibreOffice team will address this problem as I would like to support them.