I have already some times ago reported this problem on OpenOffice: Example: Start LibreOffice Writer and close it so that the standard configuration files are created. Now delete ~/.config/.libreoffice/3/user/basic and start LibreOffice Writer. A few error messages appear because the standard files are missing. LibreOffice should create them then again without an error message. It seems that this even work with more folders like /basic.
The new configuration path ~/.config/libreoffice has the same problem.
in 3.6.0 master on Fedora 64 bit after deleting folder "basic": first time office complains 4 times and creates folder "basic" with file script.xlc and folder Standard inside. in all other starts it complains 2 times on these files not exist: dialog.xlc and dialogs.xli IMHO it is bug. Why not create these 2 file automatically?
In LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC4 the error messages doesn't appear anymore but the most folders are not created anymore too. If this is the correct behavior this ticket can be closed.
@ sworddragon2@aol.com Thanks for additional testing @ Noel Greetings What do You think about this bug?
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> In LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC4 the error messages doesn't appear anymore but the most > folders are not created anymore too. If this is the correct behavior this > ticket can be closed. I'm still seeing this behavior with LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 on Linux 3.16.7-ckt1 (x86_64).
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Still reproducible. Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: c8481c8a43ce2544275b2d70ef29a8b0cb157732 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: threaded But I don't know if this request is really wanted--if it's implemented, LibreOffice will compare the default user files with the current user files. If files are missing, LibreOffice will copy the default files. But this procedure would increase the start time a lot I assume. Nonetheless it would be nice if no files are missing, no matter what the user has destroyed. But how likely is this? Adding needsUXEval.
Wouldn't add code for this. If the user messes up with .config files he/she has to be aware of potential harm. A warning in case of unintended modifications sounds also like a good idea. My take => WFM.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10) > Wouldn't add code for this. If the user messes up with .config files he/she In the end yes, but it misses some logic maybe. > has to be aware of potential harm. A warning in case of unintended > modifications sounds also like a good idea. Is code too.. Mind: if you remove the whole configuration, it is restored. It should be doable to improve this. I would say an Enhancement. Related is a bug, bug 51267. So if someone looks at one of them, the other may be looked at too :)
Why clutter the user folder with standard configuration files to begin with? These files should not be created. The folders and files in the user folder should only be created when necessary. The Jetbrains folks have moved in this direction for the IDE products (Intellij, etc) in response to prodding from their users (myself included) and it has helped to reduce the sense of overwhelming clutter - and the LibreOffice user folder does feel cluttered right now, with only limited help available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile#User_profile_content.
Let's include 0-byte files as well. (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10) > Wouldn't add code for this. If the user messes up with .config files he/she > has to be aware of potential harm. A warning in case of unintended > modifications sounds also like a good idea. The problem is less with the user messing up their config files, and more with LibreOffice doing that under strange and hardly reproducible conditions (bug 47953 is on similar errors).
*** Bug 136297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From my duplicate bug 136297: it was basic/dialog.xlc that was empty. I did not tamper with my user profile by hand, so no idea how I ended up with an empty file in there.