Fatal Error!!!!! Cannot access Libre Office
I have Libre Office installed on my PC running Windows 8.x (most recent). I have my master password file in a spreadsheet file in Libre Office. Just now I clicked on the desktop shortcut to my file, and received the following message: (I don’t know how to do a screenshot in Windows on a PC).
Libre Office 5.0 – Fatal Error
The application cannot be started.
A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration.
(“missing whitespace before attribute in file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/LibreOffice%205/share/registry/main.xcd”)
The last time I opened the file successfully was yesterday. In between then and now, the only thing different I have done was download and install a driver for my Epson Printer to fix a printer problem.
Am I SOL??? If so, I’m totally screwed because that’s where I store all my passwords I can’t remember for everything!!!
You can open the main.xcd file with notepad or wordpad, using right click and open with, choose default program. You might want to uncheck the box to always open .xcd files with this application.
Make sure you keep a copy before you try and change anything.
If you change something in the file, you might need to save to a different location, and then copy from that new location to the original location. This depends how you have permissions set on that folder, but typical with windows that you can not write to files in “c:\Program Files”, but you can copy back to them with file manager.
If you just want to access your spreadsheet, you might just uninstall libreoffice and re-install again, which should recreate the main.xcd file.
But I can’t open it—it asks what program to use to open it. I searched on how to open .xcd files and read that one should scan registry for invalid entries (?) and downloaded an app to do so. Wouldn’t let me open the app because I’m not an “Administrator” on my own PC. But perhaps it’s best I didn’t open it since I know it can be dangerous to muck about in registry.
How would I possible know where a “white space” is missing in the file location? What’s the difference between a “space” and a “white space”, anyway? TIA!