LibreOffice Recent documents list is always empty

After reboot LibreOffice does not have list of recent documents. The list only exists if there are documents restored. It does not appear when I close LibreOffice, the shutdown and start again.

I can not reproduce the problem on 3.3 rc2 SLED 11 sp1. Both Recent Document menu items and the Open drop list in the home screen contain the recently opened items as expected.

Ich have the same Problem with LO 3,3.0 on Ubuntu 10.04: No list of recent documents.

Works in current release 3.3.2 and master as of 28 May 2011. Found this while looking for previous report of issue in Bug 37775.
If working in 3.4 then would say its resolved.

May be a special case report of the problem in Bug 37775 or
may be a symptom of crash on exit.
Marked as needinfo
@ Mark, ismalun
Thanks for your report. If this problem persists for you (whatever the version) please let us know the steps taken in opening, saving and closing the files.
There are cases where the Recent Documents list may not get updated (thru Save As incl. initial Save, or when LibreOffice crashes on exit). It would be great if you could take a look at Bug 37775 and see if that describes your problem.
Is it that a full list of Recent Documents disappears for you or
is it that documents don't get added to Recent list?
Do restored documents appear and then disappear from Recent list?

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Problem description:
Will not provide a 'recent documents list'
Steps to reproduce:
1. LO 3.4.5 recent docs list not retained
2. Created and saved new test doc
3. Recent docs list still nonexistant

Current behavior:
Applies across all of LO 3.5.0
Expected behavior:

Platform (if different from the browser):
Kubuntu 11.10, Linux 3.2.0-12, KDE 4.8.0
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.20 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1036.7 Safari/535.20

Can you check if this happens if you create a new user profile?

I believe "Applies across all of LO 3.5.0" means that not only CALC is affected

Same here. Ubuntu 10.04 / 64 bit. Updated my 3.4.5 install to 3.5.0 and there is no recent documents list saved now.

Markus:

Renamed the ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user folder, forcing LO to create a new user folder on startup. Recent Files now works okay. Thanks for the suggestion.

*** Bug 46103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 46172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug 46172 identified the exact configuration item that causes the behaviour.(entries in registrymodifications.xcu)

*** Bug 46176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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The best comment on this seems to be Leon's:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46172#c1

It seems the schema changed for Recent Documents, more code reading required, but it is entirely possible that this has wider ramifications for lost settings and profile problems - Stephan might have some insight into that.

Yes, looks like migration of configuration set elements loses property's values. Investigating.

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f3f79cc9e6c265baf48955d53f7e888205e0b3e0

Resolves fdo#46074: Fix Partial::contains for paths that go past a leaf node

The patch mentioned in comment 12 should fix this on master towards LO 3.6. (Backporting to LO 3.5.1 is planned)

If you worked around this problem on Linux by removing your ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user directory, and you still have the pre LO 3.5 ~/.libreoffice/3/user directory around, you can apparently force LO 3.5/3.6 to do a fresh migration of the old data by removing ~/.libreoffice/3/MIGRATED and the new ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user directory. (But you should of course only do that in a LO 3.5/3.6 build where this issue is fixed.)

However, please note that the Recent Documents list is not migrated (i.e., it will always be empty in a fresh LO 3.5/3.6, regardless of any pre LO 3.5 data). This is because officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu does not contain any MigrationStep for /org.openoffice.Office.Histories. (That migration of user data from LO 3.x to LO 3.5 became necessary at all is a nasty consequence of bug 32263.)

*** Bug 46616 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 46608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=af8895270658bec676303da2154b903a78c6fbe6&g=libreoffice-3-5

Resolves fdo#46074: Fix Partial::contains for paths that go past a leaf node

It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.2.

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5-1":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8eb49978a2454c154e94588c9e0e53bcb110253d&g=libreoffice-3-5-1

Resolves fdo#46074: Fix Partial::contains for paths that go past a leaf node

It will be available already in LibreOffice 3.5.1.

*** Bug 46812 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 46828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In the DUPs I additionally see WIN as OS

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Still a problem with 3.5 final, at least in Linux (Xubuntu 11.10)

*** Bug 47110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I believe this may be related to migration of settings from one version to another. I had this problem too. Then I removed all settings of libreoffice, which turned out to be duplicated at more than one place so I actually could not determine which one Libreoffice was actually using. So I removed all of them and then the problem was gone.

*** Bug 47130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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*** Bug 47137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Confirmed on Windows 7.

*** Bug 46731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I also confirm that I had the same problem with:

- LibreOffice 3.5.1 both RC1 and RC2, linux, x86-64, RPM packages;
- on OpenSuSE 12.1, linux, x86-64, kernel-desktop 3.1.10-8;
- using kernel built-in nouveau nvidia driver;
- Intel Centrino EM64T dual core;
- nVidia GeForce 9500M GS with 512 kbyte dedicated video memory.

As Mark already said, I solve the trouble renaming my profile directory that I carry me on since OpenOffice.org... ;-)

So the problem disappear renaming / deleting the LibreOffice profile directory:
~/.config/libreoffice/3

simply in
~/.config/libreoffice/3.old

and letting LibreOffice creating a new clean one!

Carlo

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46074 ***

*** Bug 32886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

To clarify: As this bug was present in LO 3.5.0, if you migrated from < 3.5.0 to LO 3.5.0 and now to LO 3.5.1, the issue will still appear to be present (as it happens when the user data is migrated, and that happened for you when migrating from < 3.5.0 to LO 3.5.0).

You can resolve it manually by removing the LO 3.5 user data (Linux: ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user). Upon next LO start, fresh user data should be created and newly saved documents should start to appear in the recent documents list.

Optionally, you can also remove the marker file indicating that the < 3.5.0 user data had already been migrated (Linux: ~/.libreoffice/3/MIGRATED etc., depending on what your < 3.5.0 actually was). Then, your old user data should be migrated upon the first LO start after removing the LO 3.5 user data. (But note that the recent documents list is never migrated, see comment 13.)

*** Bug 47348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Salam

Thanks
Solved as you said.

2012/3/15 <email address hidden>

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removing ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user did not solve the problem for me... nothing changed (except that I had to reconfigure my dictionnaries)

(In reply to comment #41)
> removing ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user did not solve the problem for me...
> nothing changed (except that I had to reconfigure my dictionnaries)

Just to be sure: You need to both remove the user directory *and* update to at least LO 3.5.1.

I have LibreOffice 3.5.1.2 (and I had that when I removed the folder).
Do I need to reinstall it?

*** Bug 48255 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

We have some reports for that problem for versions 3.5.1 and later for Linux and WIN.

May be we have a second problem what is not fixed by the fix here? If there is no evidence that the fix does not work se should close this Bug again and continue discussion concerning latest problem under "Bug 48528 - FILEOPEN: no documents in Recent Documents list" (or similar)

@<email address hidden>
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#How_to_reopen_Bugs>

The problem mentioned in comment 41 is now covered by bug 48528, so I am closing this bug again.

I am running Windows 7 and 3.5.2.2 The Recent Documents List remains
resolutely unpopulated.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:54 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 46074] FILEOPEN: No Recent Documents...

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46074

--- Comment #45 from Rainer Bielefeld <email address hidden>
2012-04-12 22:54:26 PDT ---
We have some reports for that problem for versions 3.5.1 and later for Linux
and WIN.

May be we have a second problem what is not fixed by the fix here? If there
is
no evidence that the fix does not work se should close this Bug again and
continue discussion concerning latest problem under "Bug 48528 - FILEOPEN:
no
documents in Recent Documents list" (or similar)

@<email address hidden>
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#How_to_reopen_Bugs>

Removing ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user
causes the Recent Documents to begin working again.

Am using:
LibreOffice 3.5.2.2
Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f

On Mint Linux Release 12 (Lisa)

(In reply to comment #48)
> Removing ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user
> causes the Recent Documents to begin working again.

but is a pain in the arse as you loose all plugins and extensions and presumably all other user data as well.

(In reply to comment #49)
> (In reply to comment #48)
> > Removing ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user
> > causes the Recent Documents to begin working again.
>
> but is a pain in the arse as you loose all plugins and extensions and
> presumably all other user data as well.

See comment 13 how to resurrect a removed LO >= 3.5.0 ~/.config/libreoffice from an old LO < 3.5 ~/.libreoffice.

(In reply to comment #50)
> (In reply to comment #49)
> > (In reply to comment #48)
> > > Removing ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user
> > > causes the Recent Documents to begin working again.
> >
> > but is a pain in the arse as you loose all plugins and extensions and
> > presumably all other user data as well.
>
> See comment 13 how to resurrect a removed LO >= 3.5.0 ~/.config/libreoffice
> from an old LO < 3.5 ~/.libreoffice.

Thanks.

Also letting LibO create a new ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user directory and then coping over the old uno_packages, extensions and config directories brought back the extensions & config and the recent documents list still appears to work.

Thanks, that worked.

*** Bug 48528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This all very well for Linux but what about Windows? I too have LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 , Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f. But I don't have a folder ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user. The installation in Windows creates ... \LibreOffice\3\user\config So I'm none the wiser on what to do.

But to be blunt, I really don't want all this geekery. Can someone PLEASE simply issue a version of LibreOffice 3.5 that just works and not expect usres to fathom how to get full functionality? At the moment, I am thinking seriously of uninstalling and going back to the MS software - which DOES work.

Amen to that!

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To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:19 PM
Subject: [Bug 46074] FILEOPEN: No Recent Documents...

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46074

--- Comment #54 from Ross Howie <email address hidden> 2012-04-19 10:19:01 PDT ---
This all very well for Linux but what about Windows?  I too have LibreOffice
3.5.2.2 , Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f.  But I don't have
a folder ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user.  The installation in Windows creates ...
\LibreOffice\3\user\config    So I'm none the wiser on what to do.

But to be blunt, I really don't want all this geekery.  Can someone PLEASE
simply issue a version of LibreOffice 3.5 that just works and not expect usres
to fathom how to get full functionality?  At the moment, I am thinking
seriously of uninstalling and going back to the MS software - which DOES work.

(In reply to comment #54)
> This all very well for Linux but what about Windows? I too have LibreOffice
> 3.5.2.2 , Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f. But I don't have
> a folder ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user. The installation in Windows creates ...
> \LibreOffice\3\user\config So I'm none the wiser on what to do.

On Windows, you can remove LibreOffice\3\user\registrymodifications.xcu (it will cause some customization to get lost, like things changed in "Tools - Options").

(That Windows is affected at all by this LO 3.5.0 bug is an unfortunate consequence of another bug in that version, which caused LO to "migrate" its existing per-user configuration data onto itself. And, unfortunately, there is no good way for a later LO version to automatically fix the breakage caused by this bug in LO 3.5.0.)

Totally agree.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:19 AM, <email address hidden> wrote:

> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46074
>
> --- Comment #54 from Ross Howie <email address hidden> 2012-04-19
> 10:19:01 PDT ---
> This all very well for Linux but what about Windows? I too have
> LibreOffice
> 3.5.2.2 , Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f. But I don't
> have
> a folder ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user. The installation in Windows
> creates ...
> \LibreOffice\3\user\config So I'm none the wiser on what to do.
>
> But to be blunt, I really don't want all this geekery. Can someone PLEASE
> simply issue a version of LibreOffice 3.5 that just works and not expect
> usres
> to fathom how to get full functionality? At the moment, I am thinking
> seriously of uninstalling and going back to the MS software - which DOES
> work.
>
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Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4ccb4bda483eb548eb6efb5e2f1952f094522320

fdo#46074 Ignore corrupted items in Recent Documents

The various, legitimate complaints here that LO should self-heal its blocked Recent Documents list made me have another look at the code, and indeed the above master commit (comment 58) should make a broken Recent Documents list work again without any manual intervention (old entries will still be lost, but new entries will start to appear again).

I am intending to get that fix backported into LO 3.5.3.

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=488b766836ef41c51670175fc2eeff7c9640e86c&g=libreoffice-3-5

fdo#46074 Ignore corrupted items in Recent Documents

It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.4.

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5-3":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=76abd1abea8b23e843104756f3942c94e5e81d64&g=libreoffice-3-5-3

fdo#46074 Ignore corrupted items in Recent Documents

It will be available already in LibreOffice 3.5.3.

I removed the file registrymodifications.xcu and I still have nothing in Recent Documents after opening and closing a few documents.

(In reply to comment #62)
> I removed the file registrymodifications.xcu and I still have nothing in Recent
> Documents after opening and closing a few documents.

David, where exactly was that file located? (If you are running on Linux, you likely have different directories ~/.libreoffice/3/user vs. ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user containing that file.) Also, if you can wait for LO 3.5.3, you could check whether my subsequent fix makes your problem go away automatically (that fix was not yet in 3.5.3 rc1, but will be in later revisions).

Okay, this is getting confusing. So there are two places where the file is saved. So I removed it from the other location and replaced with a modified version, in which I kept just the first few lines (cutting out all document history from the file, as well as anything referring to Openoffice.org), and now I have the recent documents listed again.

When the 3.5.3 comes out I shall upgrade to that.

Thanks for your help and work on this.

*** Bug 47758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reset version number to original value (3.5.0). Please note that the version field should containt the FIRST version which is known to contain the problem, NOT the last one!

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e3633f60b349022994e291aa3d1a0c90c3403b2e

fdo#46074 fdo#49948 Ignore corrupted items in Recent Documents

*** Bug 49948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fcac9e82d3233d85a6da11bd716a7dc357d5eed2&g=libreoffice-3-5

fdo#46074 fdo#49948 Ignore corrupted items in Recent Documents

It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.5.

To fix that and not loose settings use HistoryMaster addon.
Set pick list to 0, Apply.
Next set pick list to 10, Apply.
And done, recent list is back.

(In reply to comment #69)
> Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue.
> It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5":
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fcac9e82d3233d85a6da11bd716a7dc357d5eed2&g=libreoffice-3-5
>
> fdo#46074 fdo#49948 Ignore corrupted items in Recent Documents
>
>
> It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.5.

...and that's now also in LibreOffice 3.5.4, see <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-5-4&id=12e49e422e5244173d97bcf61f5354fd90d7fab3>

*** Bug 49929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** SOLVED ON WINDOWS ***

Just download and install LO 3.5.4 (LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Build ID: 165a79a-7059095-e13bb37-fef39a4-9503d1)

Platform is Windows 7 64 bit on Lenovo Y460 notebook.

Previously suffering from this bug. I.e. no document listed in recently used.

Did not do anything to remove whatever user file etc as suggested in work around. Just straight away install without uninstalling previous version (which I forget to record, probably very early version of 3.5, remember only upgrade it one time)

After the installation boot up and no recent document in the list. As expected.

Open a document. Close it and the recent document list is updated with that document. Tested with another document and work as expected.

Hope this help other people on Windows. And I would suggest that any workaround in the future is to be suggested with all platform in mind.

Thankfully the act of installing a new version is very similar to all platform ;)

Have a good day!

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