Delay opening documents

[clydeopen]

suddenly today it takes 30 - 60 seconds to open Open Office documents. Once crashed but recoverable. Running Windows 11 and Open Office 4.1.15

[FJCC]

If this happens with all documents, try resetting your user profile. The crash might have damaged it.
With OpenOffice shutdown, open any folder and enter
%appdata%\openoffice\4
in the address bar. Rename the user folder to user_old. Restart OpenOffice and you should get the registration screen. Check if documents pen quickly now.

[robleyd]

It may also be possible that OpenOffice is looking for a defined printer that is offline. Try changing the setting for the 'Load printer settings with the document' option under Tools| Options| Load/Save| General.

[RoryOF]

It can also happen that a document is not in OpenOffice's native format, hence must be translated to that on opening. Some translation, which occur in the background on opening, can be fast, but the process of editing can increase the size/complexity of a document so that on a new opening of it, for unknown reasons, that new opening takes a long time. We see that sometimes with Calc files, which open slowly on some computer architectures and operating systems (examples on Forum have been an hour or more) but speedily on other computer architectures or operating systems.

It is often a good procedure to allow a "slow" file open, however long it takes, and then Save As under a new name in OpenOffice's native format for such file type. That new file copy _may_ open much more quickly; if so, use it.