Why has LO become so slow at opening even small files

[timj_bsgcgoty2003]

V 6.2.1.2 running on PCLinuxOS

For the last few weeks, it has been painful to watch LO open files, e.g. 140 seconds for a small, 8kb Calc file, and 150 seconds for a single page, 16kb Writer file.

(I had another problem with Calc where it disabled the Backspace key which made correcting cell formulae an absolute nightmare. This has been resolved, I hope, by upgrading to this Version from 6.2.0.3)

At the start of every PC session, I was getting the following error message:

NETWORK PROXY CONFIGURATION
Could not find a usable proxy configuration script

Any ideas what I can do to sort this out, please, as I am used to pretty fast LO operation, and it is driving me mad.

Many thanks.

Tim

[anon73440385]

Hello timj_bsgcgoty2003, are you sure that this message is from LibreOffice and not from your OS? If it is really from LibreOffice, try to disable any Proxy configuration at Tools -> Options -> Internet -> Proxy (Set Proxy server: to None under Settings)

[timj_bsgcgoty2003]

Sorry, I didn’t make it clear. When I first open LO in any PC session I get the error message. So it is LO related and not OS related.

I have changed the Proxy server setting in LO as you suggested, and it has made no difference - the error message still pops up.

Any other ideas, anyone?

Thanks in anticpation.

[anon73440385]

I have now installed a PCLinuxOS (using MATE desktop)

user@system;> uname -a

Linux localhost.localdomain 5.0.4-pclos1 #1 SMP Sat Mar 23 20:16:51 CDT 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

installed LibreOffice using synaptic and the default resources available in PCLinuxOS

Version: 6.2.2.2
Build ID: 2b840030fec2aae0fd2658d8d4f9548af4e3518d
CPU threads: 1; OS: Linux 5.0; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

and I cannot confirm your observation. I do not see any error message, when starting up LibreOffice (or an other application.

[Johnson_T]

Several installations later, and following me uninstalling LO by mistake from my wife’s PC and having the Devil’s Own Job in reinstalling it as lomanager didn’t work for ages, she now gets this Network Proxy Configuration message EVERY time she opens her first document of a computing session.

I disabled the proxy configuration under Tools/Internet as suggested above, but still get the message. Strangely, I tried to change this setting back to System from None, but it won’t let me. Why not?

This is all an irritant rather than a critical error at the moment, but there is an underlying concern that something else under the bonnet is not quite right. My wife does loads of important charitable work so cannot afford to lose any files or access to them for any reason.

Any ideas, please, anyone?