wine users - Mar 2010 - Word 2007 crashes when showing "Open" or "Save As" dialog

Hi Folks,

I'm running a Office 2007 Home Student with Wine 1.1.40 under Ubuntu 9.10
(Gnome desktop). The program seems to work fine but when I need to open or save
documents from some specific folders, the program crashes.

At this time I identified two folders where it happens: the home folder and a
subfolder under my Documents folder.

How can I identify the reason of this crash? Could it be something related to
permissions or something else?

I also would like to launch word from command line, so I could see the error
messages, but whenever I launch it manually it crashes. If I launch it using the
gnome menus everything works fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help.

ericchaves wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm running a Office 2007 Home Student with Wine 1.1.40 under Ubuntu
9.10 (Gnome desktop). The program seems to work fine but when I need to open or
save documents from some specific folders, the program crashes.
> 
> At this time I identified two folders where it happens: the home folder and
a subfolder under my Documents folder.
> 
> How can I identify the reason of this crash? Could it be something related
to permissions or something else?
> 
> I also would like to launch word from command line, so I could see the
error messages, but whenever I launch it manually it crashes. If I launch it
using the gnome menus everything works fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.

How did you install Office? If you followed one of the many outdated howtos
floating about that call for installing a bunch of things with winetricks,
delete or rename the wineprefix and reinstall without any tweaks.

Don't install the PDF extension; there's a open bug saying it causes
Word to crash when trying to open or save files.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17464

Permissions problems with the folder shouldn't crash Word; you should just
get a message that the folder is not accessible.

Run it from a terminal following the directions here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal
Post everything in the terminal, including the command you use to run it.