Advice Request LibreOffice Writer:: if you don’t use it, it freezes

[beginner-mt]

Hello

I wonder whether anyone could help.

LibreOffice Writer Portable ( portableapps.com ), when open, but Unused, freezes, after a short while.

In other words, if you open LibreOffice Writer, and use it, everything works fine.

However, as soon as you stop using it – let’s say for about five minutes, sometimes even less – when you go back to working on the document, you’ll find out that it has frozen. You need to exit LibreOffice, and then open it again.

I tried Google, but nothing seems to come up.

Any idea??

In advance, thank you very much for your kind assistance

Christian

 

[motox781]

I have the same problem, but no solution for you. Possibly a bug that will be fixed soon.

 

[Ink]

Are you able to downgrade to a previous version, or use a beta build for a temp. workaround?

 

[beginner-mt]

TO THE ADMINISTRATORS

I’m terribly sorry

In my post, I idiotically forgot to add that I’m talking about LibreOffice Writer PORTABLE (portableapps.com)

Can/Should I amend my post, or start a completely new thread??

My apologies

Christian

 

[upnorth]

Fixed. I added the info also in your first post.

 

[Chuck57]

Odd. I ran LibreOffice 6.4 and earlier (no portable) for years, often leaving it open for long periods and never had a problem. I've since gone back to my old MS Office 2007 which works well on Win 8.1 Pro and removed LibreOffice. Never saw a post anywhere mentioning it freezing.

 

[beginner-mt]

Hello everyone

@upnorth --- thank you very much

@ everyone --- Yes, I’ve been using LibreOffice Portable for years, never had any problem.

Thanks anyway for all your kind help

Christian

 

[beginner-mt]

Hi

you may (or may not) be interested.

Perhaps, I found a makeshift mitigation (NOT a solution) for the problem.

On the top right hand side corner of LibreOffice’s window, use the “Maximize/Resize” icon (NOT the “Minimize” one).

First reduce and then maximize the size of Writer’s document --- or the other way round.

Not sure why, but it “Unfreezes” the LibreOffice document.

I hope it helps those who experience the same problem.

Kind regards

Christian

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[SeriousHoax]

I had this exact same problem 2 days ago 3 times in a row. I'm using the standard, non portable version. They really need to fix this ASAP.