I have recently upgraded to LO 3.3.3 Portable. I am having a strange problem opening docs. I have .ods and .odt extensions pointing to the LibreOfficePortable launcher, so when I double-click on a spreadsheet or a database it opens it through the launcher.
OK, I can have several spreadsheets open at once no problem. If, however, I close one of the spreadsheets then try opening another one, it displays a message box:
"Another instance of Libreoffice Portable is starting. lease wait for it to start before launching again."
The only way to get a doc to launch through the LO portable launcher now is to close all the open LO documents, so that LO is completely stopped, then I can start to open documents again, and the problem will only re-appear if I close one of them before trying to open another one.
Does anyone have any ideas, and can anyone else replicate this?
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It's already a known issue in the PA.c Launcher. It will be fixed soon. Until then, you can open them within the app itself or close after opening two.
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OK, thanks for the super-fast reply!
Try this test launcher to ensure it fixes the issue with launching more than twice with a document passed in: https://portableapps.com/node/28473#comment-179414
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on w2k the fix does not work
actually it looks, as the launcher does not pass the starting parameters (filename) to the soffice.exe.
direct opening from LO-menu is doing it perfectly, but drag+drop or double-click will not work( error: another instance is running ...)
Martin
Did you delete Data\PortableApps.comLauncherRuntimeData-LibreOfficePortable.ini? You need to delete it before the fixed version will work.
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