After I forced LibreOffice to quit, it apparently saved what windows was opened and when I tried to reopen the application, it popped up the restore windows dialog saying, "The application 'LibreOffice' was forced to quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try to restore its windows again?"
Now, after this dialog appeared, I was unable to close it by ether button and there is no way around it.
I have found a fix for this issue (at least until you force quit the application again), which isn't that hard to do. Just follow the following steps and if you have this issue, you can fix it.
1: Force quit the troubling application by right clicking (control or 2 fingers on the track pad as you single click) and holding down option to replace the quit item with the Force Quit item (quitting does not work).
2: Create a new window in the Finder and select the Go menu, while you are in the Go menu, hold down the option key and select the Library menu which appears.
3: Once you are in the Library folder, look for a folder named "Saved Application State" and open it.
4: Inside of this folder is a bunch of folders, that has the name like {top level domain}.{domain name}.{application}.savedState, we are looking for this applications folder which would be org.libreoffice.script.savedState as script is the application, and libreoffice.org is the domain of the site. You can find out the identifier of any application by downloading this application I made for this post http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610721/ApplicationIdentifer.zip. Once you find the folder for your application you just delete it by moving to the trash.
5: Relaunch the application with the problem and the problem should be gone.
If you are any good with applescript, you could write an applet to do this for you by replacing the text in red with the identifier of the application:
do shell script "rm -rf '~/Library/Saved Application State/{IDENTIFER}.savedState'"
This was driving me crazy and your solution works! Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent, thanks for this!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! That is the ONLY solution i found in the net.
ReplyDeleteIT worked, thanks so much! I was really lost trying to do it, I use open office, and it worked perfectly your directions were simple..
ReplyDeleteI tried this with OpenOffice on Lion, and it didn't work....
ReplyDeleteThanks .. that saved my day/week.
ReplyDeleteI did try to fix it by disabling the "Save State Option" in System Preferences > General. But i guess that was already too late, and changing that option did not clean up the 'saved state folders' already exisiting.
Mary
ReplyDeleteI solved the same one in Lion. In the library direction there is a folder with the name CrashReporter. In that folder I found a file with a name that I figured belonged to open office. I removed that file and it worked again
Thanks, your manual helped me to resolve "Restore windows" problem... :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestion, but I couldn't find any folder named CrashReporter, even when I searched my computer:/
ReplyDeleteAwesome, sir, now I can do my taxes in peace!
ReplyDeleteThank you, it was literally bugging me...
ReplyDeleteThank you... your post really help me.... Danupol Siamwalla
ReplyDeleteMary,
ReplyDeleteIn Terminal write
chflags nohidden ~/Library
then go to users/%username%/Library/Saved Application State
and just find the folder you need to delete
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks !!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG Thank you sooooo much! I emailed you, and then as soon as it was sent I found the link to your blog! Thank you for posting this! I was really about to have a coronary if I didn't fix this. I am a college student and this was the only way I could view my class notes! Thank you!
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Worked great! Thanks.
ReplyDeletethanks!! the solution worked perfectly
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't work for me , i can not Click "Go" on finder because it just disappear with my Finder Problem it keeps re lunching every time and popping up!!!Please help !!
ReplyDeleteThanks, worked for me.
ReplyDeleteGreat, thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteMy god that was driving me crazy and went through so many different solutions that didn't work but this did. Thanks a million.
ReplyDeleteYou da man!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!!! This post was really useful and simple to understand. Open Office was getting on my nerves for days. Thanks to you it's all fixed now.
ReplyDeletehey dude..
ReplyDeleteI cant find the library on my computer?
Brilliant, Thanks. It's been bugging me for days.
ReplyDeleteExcellent solution, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Couldn't find anything else online. You save me alot of time!
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem Mary and Anonymous did... in Lion, the library is hidden from the "go" menu. However, I found a fix. If you hold down the "option" key on your mac while looking in the "go" menu that this tutorial suggests, the library appears, and then you can follow this tutorial to fix it. Libre Office is working great for me again, so thanks!
ReplyDeleteDon't see how people miss this BrisOwnWorld... "while you are in the Go menu, hold down option" from above.
ReplyDeletetanks for the option go menu - Library trick :-) and thanks for the solution :-)
ReplyDeletegreat! it worked your my hero!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you! You saved my day.
ReplyDeleteThanks, worked like a charm!
ReplyDeleteWow
ReplyDeleteOpen Office works now!
Thanks
PS.I only had to delete the text file
love you geeks!
ReplyDeleteGreat!
ReplyDeleteThank you! You're the best!
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteVery nice, thanx!
ReplyDeleteBTW: As a new Mac'er, I didn't know what the option key was, for me, it's the alt key that worked like a charm ;-)
Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteThank you!!
ReplyDeleteOMG! You are a life saver! I just fixed my ongoing for weeks problem that all most interfere with my academic paper. AWESOME! THANK YOU! Best lo luck! sz
ReplyDeleteYou the Man!!
ReplyDeleteThis was exactly what I needed! Awesome post, thank you very much! This was driving me crazy.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your help.
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