Thursday, 16 August 2012

OpenOffice+OSX Error: "The application...restore windows.." in OSX 10.7

While running OpenOffice  on Mac OSX 10.7.1 ,sometimes we repeatedly get an error "The application 'OpenOffice.org' was forced to quit while trying to restore its windows.Do you want to restore its windows again"

This is a persistant popup which might lead you into thinking that something is catastrophically wrong with your OpenOffice installation.

There are several solutions on the web but the only way that worked for me is as follows:
1) Kill all instances of soffice/OpenOffice.org
2) Goto /Users/<you>/Library/Saved Application State
Library is a hidden folder ,so use Go->Go to folder from the Finder Menu
3)Look for the folder org.openoffice.script.savedState
4)Delete this folder!!!
5)Now try to use Openoffice again.

You can observe that the popup disappears.

Alternatives (in case the previous method did not help)
 1) Kill all instances of soffice/OpenOffice.org

2) Goto /Users/<you>/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org/3
Library is a hidden folder ,so use Go->Go to folder from the Finder Menu
3)Look for a folder named user
4)Rename user folder to user.old (just so that you have backup)
5) Now try to use Openoffice again.
(If that still doesn't fix your problem , delete the new user folder and restore user.old to user and try again)

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