macOS
First check the system requirements before installing LibreOffice on macOS.
- Note: The headings on this list indicate the Macintosh System bundle names; the bullet points indicate the version of the System File included in that bundle. This is to make it clearer for people searching for specific bundle versions as opposed to System File versions. Finder File versions are not indicated. 1 Classic Mac OS 1.1 Macintosh System Software (0 - 0.3) 1.1.1 System File 1 1.1.2.
- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10115) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36 Build Identifier: LibreOffice 5.0-34 When I Clear List under Recent Documents it clears that list but not the list that can be obtained.
- Download the .DMG file from the download page.
- Open the .DMG file by double-clicking on it.
- An installation window appears: drag and drop the LibreOffice icon onto the Applications icon in the same window. You may be required to enter your administrator password.
- The files are copied over and a progress bar shows when the installation is complete.
- If needed, you may now download and install the language pack(s) of your choice and built-in help by downloading the .DMG file of your choice. The installers for these are launched from inside their .DMG files.
Every so often – usually around the time of a major new macOS release – I perform a clean install of the OS on my Macs. Along with restoring user data I tend to restore the configuration data of certain applications including the Microsoft Office applications. While this is a great timesaver, it can also cause some unexpected results. For example, the Recent file lists in Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Let’s use Word as an example.
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Opening a freshly installed copy of Word, I’m greeted with the Recent file list showing all the files I opened prior to performing a clean macOS install.
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This is not as useful as it first seems. If I try to open one of these files I get a message saying that Word is unable to open that file even though I know it has been restored to the exact same location on my Mac’s drive. I assume this is because each entry is now merely a broken reference or symbolic link to the original file.
I’m left with a completely useless Recent file list. Installing ida pro linux. No worries, I can select all the recent file entries with a couple of mouse clicks and delete them en masse, right? Wrong. I can only select each entry individually and control-clicking gives the following options:
Not wanting to have to remove each entry separately, I started digging around the file system and found the file
com.microsoft.Word.securebookmarks.plist
buried deep within the Word configuration data containing all the recently opened Word documents. The full path to the file is ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/
.Rather than delete this file, I first closed Word then renamed it as
com.microsoft.Word.securebookmarks.old.plist
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On re-opening Word, the Recent file list is now empty:
There are similar configuration files for Excel and PowerPoint:
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This is certainly not a subtle approach. By renaming the configuration files, you’ll lose all the Recent file entries along with the Pinned and Shared With Me file lists. To me, this is preferable to having a long list of files that can’t be opened. It may also be useful if – for whatever reason – you want to start afresh with a new Recent file list.
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NOTE: If you’re navigating to these files through the
Finder
you may not be able to locate the directories com.microsoft.Excel
, com.microsoft.Powerpoint
and com.microsoft.Word
in the ~/Library/Containers
directory. They are there, but may be displayed as Microsoft Excel
, Microsoft PowerPoint
and Microsoft Word
respectively. This does not affect the Terminal
commands shown above.