On Friday 14 March 2014 20:50:05 David Bell wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2014 19:47:52 Gerhard Zintel wrote: > > Might it be due to you first used it with sudo that now the files in that > > folder no longer belongs to you? I have ~/.config/libreoffice/3 and > > ~/.config/libreoffice/4 and all the files inside are owned by me and from > > my group. Could you check the owner and the access rights? E.g.: > > $ ls -l /home/edos/.config/libreoffice > > $ ls -l /home/edos/.config/libreoffice/3 > > $ ls -l /home/edos/.config/libreoffice/3/user > > These 3 files are owned and can be accessed by me. > > I removed "/home/edos/.config/libreoffice" as suggested by Dr. Nikolaus > Klepp and this appeared to work. However, later on, a subsequent attempt to > open LibreOffice resulted in the old fault reappearing > and /home/edos/.config/libreoffice has reappeared as well!! > > I can still open libreoffice as a sudoer in a terminal. > > A puzzlement! Thanks for all the suggestions. I decided eventually to download the live TDE Ubuntu 12.04 disk and perform a clean install from that instaed. All is now well. <grin>