This is just for information really. Perhaps the issue occurs with other disk imaging software too.
I puzzled long and hard over what was going on here and only recently made the connection. I'm an infrequent user of Libreoffice but I noticed on a few occasions over the months that the spellchecker was broken and non functional. A bit of searching on the web revealed this to be a common issue (although no reasons are ever given as to why it breaks) and the fix is simple... you delete a specific folder and restart LibreOffice and all is fixed. The folder is this one,
c:\users\name\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\extensions\ and you delete the folder marked 'bundled'
Why does it break randomly ?
Well it seems (and I have proved this several times now as a test) that simply restoring an Acronis disc image (a full image or an incremental) breaks the spellcheck.
I have no idea why this happens but it is 100% repeatable on my system. There never seem to be any other issues on restoring, just LibreOffice and the broken spellchecker. I can only assume that some part of LibreOffice is held in a "transient" type file that does not get backed up and restored (I think that happens to restore points if you use those and also use Acronis).
As mentioned earlier, this is just for information as there doesn't seem to be a fix for this... but it could happen to you
I puzzled long and hard over what was going on here and only recently made the connection. I'm an infrequent user of Libreoffice but I noticed on a few occasions over the months that the spellchecker was broken and non functional. A bit of searching on the web revealed this to be a common issue (although no reasons are ever given as to why it breaks) and the fix is simple... you delete a specific folder and restart LibreOffice and all is fixed. The folder is this one,
c:\users\name\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\extensions\ and you delete the folder marked 'bundled'
Why does it break randomly ?
Well it seems (and I have proved this several times now as a test) that simply restoring an Acronis disc image (a full image or an incremental) breaks the spellcheck.
I have no idea why this happens but it is 100% repeatable on my system. There never seem to be any other issues on restoring, just LibreOffice and the broken spellchecker. I can only assume that some part of LibreOffice is held in a "transient" type file that does not get backed up and restored (I think that happens to restore points if you use those and also use Acronis).
As mentioned earlier, this is just for information as there doesn't seem to be a fix for this... but it could happen to you
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- W10 x64 pro and W8.1 x86
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301
- CPU
- Intel i5/AMD Turion 64
- Memory
- 4Gb/2Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel i5 internal/NVidia GEFORCE GO 6100
- Sound Card
- Realtek
- Hard Drives
- 250Gb SSD and 120Gb
- Mouse
- HP Z4000
- Internet Speed
- 76 down, 20 up
- Browser
- MS Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender