https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155213
Bug ID: 155213
Summary: with Windows startup booster "quickstart.exe" an *.odb
file incl. password protected spreadsheet *.odt fails
to open
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.3.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Base
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: harry_the_kor...@web.de
Description:
when LibreOffice installs, it offers to install a startup enhancement that is
being set in the StartUp folder. As in my bug Bug 152542 this sometimes causes
in 90 percent to fail to open files that are password protected. So is here the
case with a BASE file that has a spreadsheet embedded which had been password
protectet.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install LibreOffice but opt-in and tick the option when asked "Load
LibreOffice 7.x during system startup"
2. this will drop a shortcut named: quickstart.exe to your Windows startUp
folder to boost LibreOffice loading times for large office files
2. create a generic spreadsheet with a table of 3 columns and 3 rows (being the
records for the base file later on see step 7.)
3. save the table (spreadsheet) but use a password protection via “Save as…"
save with password"
4. the following dialog will ask you to enter your new password twice
5. create a new database, but connect to an existing database (point with the
browser to your earlier created spreadsheet)
6. now you may have to enter your password to be able to open that file and it
will be put to the “Tables” tab
7. Save the new base-file.odb in the same folder next to your spreadsheet
8. have your computer restarted! to make sure quickstart.exe gets initialized
via the shortcut from the Windows startup folder (from within the current user
or all default users)
9. this is now the moment for what this bug is about:
10. when Windows has completed its startup routine, a tiny white icon should be
shown in the taskbar next to the clock. This indicates that quickstart has been
loaded. If quickstart hasn’t been loaded and you open any LibreOffice file you
may be shown a splash screen of “LibreOffice”
11. jump to your folder with the new BASE.odb and spreadsheet that you created
12. open the BASE file then click on TABLES which should now ask you for the
password that refers to your spreadsheet
13. make sure you enter the correct password
14. In my case the password wasn’t accepted even I had absolutely no mistake
15. By kicking out (ending by right click) the tiny little app quickstart from
the task bar, and heading back to step 12 voilà it opens your BASE file
16. this proves that quickstart has an issue
17. If you try to find quickstart.exe from the Windows folder or the
LibreOffice folder and have it run on your own then the password procedure
above will work surprisingly at no error
Actual Results:
file error when opening files right after Windows startup has completed caused
by the shortcut "quicksart.exe"
Expected Results:
quickstart.exe from the startup folder should open of office files especially
initially afer windows has started.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
If you close the tiny app called quickstart.exe and try to open any files again
that had been failed to open, it will work fine then until next Windows boot.
It is irrelevant whether the Office file you wish to open is password protected
or not.
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