Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 94296
OOo 3.0 RC2 launch silently fails when installed in folder whose name begins with underscore (_)
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:52:38 UTC
[Mac OS X 10.4.11 on Core2Duo MacBook Pro, 4GB RAM; stock hard drive formatted HFS+ Journaled, not case-sensitive; no other versions of OOo ever installed on this machine] - download OOo 3.0 RC2 - open dmg - drag application to a subfolder of /Applications whose name starts with an underscore, e..g /Applications/_general - double click to launch OOo -->> application launching silently fails; the icon zooms as if the app will launch, but nothing further happens; app is not present in Dock or Activity Monitor, no console or system log messages - move OOo application package to /Applications - double-click -->> application launches normally - quit OOo - move OOo application package back to /Applications/_general or similarly named folder - double-click -->> application launch fails silently - move OOo application package back to a subfolder of /Applications whose name starts with an alphabetic character, e.g. /Applications/ootest - double-click -->> application launches normally
I wonder whether somewhere amongst ~/Library/Application Support and/or ~/Library/Preferences there is a file that assumes a predictable path to OOo?
in answer to grahamperrin: it would seem that there is not a reliance on a predictable path to OOo -- as my instructions note, one may place the application in an arbitrarily named subfolder and it works, but not when that folder's name begins with underscore