Lots of problems. For starters, I tried to post this yesterday, but I can’t find it today.
Be that as it may, Writer 26.2.0.3 in Windows 11. Writer loaded fine, but when I opened my current document (.docx), I got a warning above the 'working area (the pages) which says “Missing hyphenation data Please install the hyphenation package for locale “en-us””. It also has a “Learn more” link, which tells me to run Linux command to install the thing. No go, but hitting the “learn more” link makes the Warning disappear. So apparently I can continue working as if nothing happened. But, I’m worried that today’s work will be lost.
I also noticed that the “look for updates” link (the little globe icon with the blue down arrow in the upper right corner of Writer). The first couple of times that the hyphenation warning appeared, it flashed on and off and running the mouse across it showed a message that “Updates for extension available Click the icon for more information”. That seemed promising, so I clicked it, but doing so closed Writer altogether.
Nevertheless, at other times (while the hyphenation warning is not on the screen, the globe icon seems to be a “Look for updates” link, but it then leaves an error message:
Checking for an update failed.
Error reading data from the Internet.
Server error message:
GET
=>
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden.
Also, Writer pops up a message that says it will send a crash report. I hit “Send crash report” at least three times by now, so I hope it went, but I can’t tell. There is also a Document Recovery popup, which doesn’t seem to do anything except make the hyphenation warning reappear.
I almost forgot, I also tried to initiate a bug report, which took me to Bugzilla, but Bugzilla wouldn’t acknowledge me saying that my email address that I have used for several decades didn’t have either a @ or a dot after the @.
I’m pretty sure that all of this is not SOP. What’s to be done? Should I merely uninstall and reinstall all of LO?
I have also just noticed that my document has lost all the spell-check indications. No squiggly red underlines.