Bug 166626 - Failure to remember setting
Summary: Failure to remember setting
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2025-05-18 18:07 UTC by william-waters
Modified: 2025-05-21 22:33 UTC (History)
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2025-05-18 18:10 UTC, william-waters
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Description william-waters 2025-05-18 18:07:09 UTC
Description:
Lebre office does not remember my setting it as the default to open a ODT file. It prompts me to do this each time I start it, I have made this setting and it shows as such in Windows 11...

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just start LibreOffice 
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Actual Results:
LibreOffice seems to work if I click on cancel in popup, if I click ok it goes to the windows dialog for changing the default

Expected Results:
it should recogize the setting has been made


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
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Comment 1 william-waters 2025-05-18 18:10:21 UTC
Created attachment 200852 [details]
The error Message
Comment 2 Andrew Kopf 2025-05-19 01:30:10 UTC
I am unable to duplicate this bug.

Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 22; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 3 m_a_riosv 2025-05-19 13:19:52 UTC
And those setting are in the OS not in LibreOffice.
Comment 4 william-waters 2025-05-19 16:13:39 UTC
Still the only time I get this message or any thing like it is when I run LibreOffice. I did fimd a workaround and that is to uncheck the little box in front of "Perform check on startup". There seems to be no consequence fur doing that. It appears that the oroblem only happens after a reinatall of LibreOffice and when there is an .ODT file in the previous file list. It still seem like a bug in LibreOffice sine it invokes the the message. I'm opretty sure windows does not care what kind of files I edit using LO...
Comment 5 Olivier Hallot 2025-05-21 16:11:06 UTC
You can have any alien file and put .odt as extension. Most softwares detect the real format by reading the beginning of the file and then activate the right filter (driver). Softwares rarely trusts files extension. Your file may be a "fake" ODT file.

Please try to open LibreOffice in Safe Mode, using Help -> Restart in Safe Mode and test. 

Finally, your LibreOffice installation may have been corrupted, in that case a full reinstall may be necessary.
Comment 6 william-waters 2025-05-21 22:33:50 UTC
 
Hi guys:
 
I must confess a little surprise at how this is developing...
 
I deceded to make a "Bug Report" since this message would appear each time I  started LibreOffice, reintalling does not clear the problem up. It can only be cleard up by un-checking the little box before "Perform check on startup". The message itself implies that LibreOffice is not set as the default user of "odt" files. This is not the case when I look at the settings it shows LibreOffice is the default for ODT files. Soooo from my point of view we have a "BUG" in the startup for LibreOffice. If I am missing something that would provide a relief from this message, I would be glad to hear it so I can clear up my ignorance and just get back to being a LibreOffice user...