Cannot open LO

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#1

My OS is Debian Stretch. My version of LibreOffice is 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 from the stretch-backports depository.

Just now when I tried to open LO I received the following message:

The application cannot be started.
[context = "shared"] caught unexpected
com.sun.star.ucb.NameClashException: folder exists
and overwrite forbidden

Can anybody tell me what this message means and how to fix whatever needs to be fixed so that I can use LibreOffice again?

I cannot think of what must have been done since I last closed LO. If it was something I could have done, I am not conscious of having done so.

Regards, Ken

#2

Hi.
Just a suggestion here, try temporarily renaming your configuration folder (mine is in ~/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/) in case the clash is occurring there.
Steve

#3

Thanks, Steve. I have been working on the problem, and I am sure you are right about where it is. I will get back to it tomorrow and report results.

Regards, Ken

#4

On 2018-08-23 16:37, Steve Edmonds wrote:

Hi.
Just a suggestion here, try temporarily renaming your configuration folder (mine is in ~/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/) in case the clash is occurring there.
Steve

On 24/08/18 03:06, Ken Heard wrote:

My OS is Debian Stretch.  My version of LibreOffice is 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 from the stretch-backports depository.

Just now when I tried to open LO I received the following message:

The application cannot be started.
[context = "shared"] caught unexpected
com.sun.star.ucb.NameClashException: folder exists
and overwrite forbidden

Can anybody tell me what this message means and how to fix whatever needs to be fixed so that I can use LibreOffice again?

I cannot think of what must have been done since I last closed LO.  If it was something I could have done, I am not conscious of having done so.

Regards, Ken

#5

On 2018-08-23 11:06, Ken Heard wrote:

My OS is Debian Stretch.  My version of LibreOffice is 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 from the stretch-backports depository.

Just now when I tried to open LO I received the following message:

The application cannot be started.
[context = "shared"] caught unexpected
com.sun.star.ucb.NameClashException: folder exists
and overwrite forbidden

Can anybody tell me what this message means and how to fix whatever needs to be fixed so that I can use LibreOffice again?

I cannot think of what must have been done since I last closed LO.  If it was something I could have done, I am not conscious of having done so.

Regards, Ken