OpenOffice.org 3.3 exception prevents startup

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Since upgrading to OpenOffice 3.3 on 64-bit Windows 7, OpenOffice.org fails to start and displays the following error:

The application cannot be started.

[context=”user”] caught unexpected exception!

Worked fine at version 3.2.

What’s going on, and what’s the workaround, if any?

Answer

You can try this from here:

Windows 7

  1. Show hidden files/folders: By default, our AppData folder is hidden, so we need to show all hidden files and folders before we start.

  2. Open your AppData folder
    Open your AppData folder, in my case C:\Users\syahzul\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3.

  3. Delete LibreOffice Profile: Delete or move all the contents to other place.

  4. Start LibreOffice
    Once you start the application, LibreOffice will find the profile folder, if not exists it will re-create one for you.

After few days struggling with the issue it [now works]. I hope it works for you too.

It’s for LibreOffice, but you can give it a try.

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Source : Link , Question Author : pilcrow , Answer Author : evan.bovie

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