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Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:15 am
by stigliano
Have a Mac. Just upgraded to Mountain Lion. When trying to open Oo3.4 it says Open Office is not recognized by Mac hence I cannot access files at all.
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening oOo3.4
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:14 pm
by Hagar Delest
Hi and welcome to the forum!
It seems to be related to the Gatekeeper feature, see
this topic on the mailnig list:
Please add '[Solved]' at the beginning of your
first post title (
edit button) if your issue has been fixed.
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:49 pm
by PGAGA
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Hold down control while you open AOO and the program should open correctly - although I admit AOO is a program with which I have had problem.
Phil
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:52 am
by jvideographer
Phil, I tried that and it didn't work for me.
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:14 am
by lgusaas
jvideographer wrote:Phil, I tried that and it didn't work for me.
Did you read this article? A link to it was given in a previous post.
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mountain ... gning.html
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:19 pm
by PGAGA
August 22, 2012
I actually found the security setting so annoying that I turned it off. I often build programs and it was interfering with that.
Phil
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:26 am
by jvideographer
Doesn't work for me. Open Office doesn't open. I don't get the dialogue box. Open Office is not an "app."
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:31 am
by jvideographer
So, I've lost all my documents created in Open Office and in Windows. No one here seems to have a solution that works (I've tried them all).
The only thing that kind of worked was when I e-mailed a document to someone else, they were able to open it (I don't know how) and they e-mailed it back so that I could at least see it. It was in a different format so I had to re-create it by hand.
Wow! Totally frustrating.
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:30 am
by lgusaas
jvideographer wrote:So, I've lost all my documents created in Open Office and in Windows. No one here seems to have a solution that works (I've tried them all).
What exactly have you tried? Be specific. Details are needed to figure out what your problem is.
Is OpenOffice in installed in your Applications folder?
Did you reset your user profile?
What did you mean when you said " Open Office is not an "app." " ?
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:41 am
by lpwhistler
SOLVED. I'm running Mac 10.8.3 When I tried opening open office from any other icon or location, control+click refused to open the program or give me a workable menu. But when I used control+click from INSIDE the Applications folder, a menu appeared that allowed me to choose Open. I also got a "warning" message that selecting this would always allow Open Office to open on this Mac. Aw, shucks.
Re: Mountain Lion does not permit opening AOO3.4
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:04 pm
by realchaseadams
If you're getting this error, you should be able to open System Preferences > Security & Privacy and see a notification that Open Office is blocked, and there should be a button to the right that says something along the lines of "open anyways". After clicking this button, you should be able to open Open Office the normal way you'd open an application (without having to ctrl + click).
Hope that helps.