My personalized toolbars in Writer & Calc disappeared after the update to ver. 26.8.0.3.
Can they be recovered? If so, how?
The default toolbars remain.
Update: I think other files got corrupted besides the profile. Calc runs fine, but Writer won’t open anymore. I tried repairing the application, but Windows threw a bunch of errors. I’m going to uninstall and reinstall it, let’s see if that works.
What a great start to the week!
Update 2: Surprise! Calc files have stopped opening too. I uninstalled and reinstalled LibreOffice, but that didn’t work.
I uninstalled LO again and installed OpenOffice, but OO couldn’t open the encrypted files.
I reinstalled LibreOffice; encrypted Calc files worked fine at first. Then I tried opening an encrypted Writer file, and it froze. I closed LO via the Task Manager, and now Calc files won’t work either; I don’t know what to do.
I had switched from OO to LO because of this very issue, but I guess LO is a thing of the past for me now, too.
Is there any other office suite you can recommend that can open encrypted .ods and .odt files?
Update 3:
I tried the steps outlined in the LibreOffice user profile documentation and the options in Troubleshoot Mode, didn’t work.
It seemed the entire problem lay with my password-protected Writer file. The backup copy didn’t work either.
The same file worked perfectly on another computer, so there is nothing wrong with the file itself. I removed the password on that other computer and tried it on mine; it worked—BUT only once!
My tests yielded the following results:
In Troubleshoot Mode: Calc, Draw, and Base work fine;
Writer, Impress, and Base are unresponsive?!
In Normal Mode: Calc works fine without a password but becomes unresponsive with a password.
After rebooting the computer (Windows 11), files without passwords work fine for the FIRST use, but then the behavior reverts to what I described above. I suppose rebooting before every use is an option too :)))
Reverting to a previous version would be smart, but I don’t know which version I had. There is a download option for 26.2.6, but that is a very recent version.
Perhaps version 25 would be more suitable, but I couldn’t find it. The “newest” version in the archive is from 2016! Maybe I should just get a typewriter :)))