[Bug 19385] New: the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

Summary: the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office
                    documents that have spaces in their path
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.26
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

MS Office 2007 installs without problems, but if you try to open a file (eg a
.docx file) from nautilus and the file has a space in its path, MS office says
that it cannot find the file.

The launcher for docx files is
~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-docx.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Microsoft Office Word
MimeType=application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Exec=/usr/bin/wine start /ProgIDOpen Word.Document.12 %f
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true

Example case:

1. Create a document and save it as /tmp/test document/test.docx.

2. Try to open the file from nautilus (wine should have set up Word 2007 to be
the default; if not, select 'Open With' and 'Microsoft Word').

3. MS Word starts up but complains it can't find /tmp/test.docx and
document/test.docx, ie it is receiving the filename as two separate arguments.

On a perhaps related note, you also cannot open the document with the command
line:

wine "c:\Program Files\Office12\Microsoft Office\WINWORD.EXE" "`winepath -w
"/tmp/test document/test.docx"`"

since Word complains with the same error message as above.

This is on Ubuntu 9.04 (amd64).

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

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--- Comment #1 from boskar   2009-08-27 13:24:22 ---
Confirming, i've got the same problem here.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #2 from Gogol   2009-09-14 05:57:13 ---
Confirm, I have the same issue. Oddly enough not with PowerPoint documents.

Word tries to open a document like "An example document.doc" as An.doc,
example.doc, and document.doc (three times individually), but since they do not
exist it creates an error.

"An example document.ppt" opens just fine.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

Jan Hoogenraad  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jan Hoogenraad   2009-09-28 05:10:16 ---
Same for Office 2000.
Starting from "wine explore" does NOT show this bug.

Putting ""-s around "%f" in
~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-docx.desktop
does not help

Apparently nautilus gets its information from a different location.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

--- Comment #4 from Jan Hoogenraad   2009-09-28 05:26:00 ---
Interestingly, PowerPoint from Office 2000 does NOT suffer from this problem.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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Andrey Bondrov  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Andrey Bondrov   2009-10-30 10:34:50 ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #6 from Marek Frueauff   2009-10-31 16:32:37 ---
There is very quick solution for this problem.
1. Start the regedit "alt-f2 in kde and type regedit",
2. Find registry key:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Macrosheet\shell\Open\command
3. change the default command:
Original: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e
after change: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"
4. Do the same for the keys related to the Word:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8\shell\Open\command
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12\shell\Open\command

After this cosmetic changes opening of the .doc and .xls files works perfect.

Best Regards
Marek

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #7 from Jan Hoogenraad   2009-10-31 18:03:47 ---
Doesn't help for me.
In my case the escape is missing from nautilus, not from the wine file manager.

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--- Comment #8 from chris   2009-11-06 09:52:08 ---
Tried the "" without luck, the same problem also exists when the parent folders
have spaces

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #9 from Austin English   2009-11-24 12:05:24 ---
*** Bug 20814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-12-06 21:21:01 ---
*** Bug 20938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #11 from Ivan Tham   2010-02-04 01:41:03 ---
The problem is that whatever is launching, MS Word is not properly wrapping the
file name in quotes (i.e., "My Document.docx" is treated as "My"
"Document.docx")

Working around the problem isn't too hard.

Try the following.
1) Make a script with the following text:
#!/bin/bash 
wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe" "`winepath -w
"$@"`"
and save it as "word_launch.sh". Put it somewhere safe, like your home
directory.
2) Make the script executable (right-click on the script, Properties,
Permissions).
3) Right-click on a Word document, choose Open With and choose Other
Application...
4) Hit the browse button and find the script you just made:
5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each different file type (.doc, .docx).
6) Make a new script for each different program (Word, Excel, etc.)

(The solution above is taken from Mazin's post in the following page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8769518)

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #12 from leniviy   2010-02-04 01:52:39 ---
just vote already for this bug...

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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Nikolay Sivov  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Nikolay Sivov   2010-02-09 08:28:03 ---
*** Bug 21657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #14 from Gogol   2010-02-13 09:17:39 ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> The problem is that whatever is launching, MS Word is not properly wrapping the
> file name in quotes (i.e., "My Document.docx" is treated as "My"
> "Document.docx")
>
> Working around the problem isn't too hard.
>
> Try the following.
> - Make a script with the following text:
>
> #!/bin/bash 
> wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe" "`winepath -w
> "$@"`"
> and save it as "word_launch.sh". Put it somewhere safe, like your home
> directory.
> 2) Make the script executable (right-click on the script, Properties,
> Permissions).
> 3) Right-click on a Word document, choose Open With and choose Other
> Application...
> 4) Hit the browse button and find the script you just made:
> 5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each different file type (.doc, .docx).
> 6) Make a new script for each different program (Word, Excel, etc.)
>
> (The solution above is taken from Mazin's post in the following page:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8769518)

This solution doesn't help. Word will remain trying to open separate
documents...

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

--- Comment #15 from Gogol   2010-02-13 09:21:23 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Interestingly, PowerPoint from Office 2000 does NOT suffer from this problem.

That is indeed very interesting. It suggest that a solution should not be that
difficult to achieve.

Can some developer please fix this? It seems like a minor problem that could be
fixed with a small effort, but it would help lots of people get rid of this
rather annoying problem.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

--- Comment #16 from Ivan Tham   2010-02-13 10:37:16 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> This solution doesn't help. Word will remain trying to open separate
> documents...

I'm afraid I do not understand what you're trying to say.
What do you mean "word will remain trying to open separate documents"?

I thought the issue at hand was that wine would confuse a space in the file
path with a delimiter and therefore not open the entire path, resulting in a
couple error messages.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

--- Comment #17 from Gogol   2010-02-13 13:09:06 ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > This solution doesn't help. Word will remain trying to open separate
> > documents...
>
> I'm afraid I do not understand what you're trying to say.
> What do you mean "word will remain trying to open separate documents"?
>
> I thought the issue at hand was that wine would confuse a space in the file
> path with a delimiter and therefore not open the entire path, resulting in a
> couple error messages.

If you try to open in Nautilus a document like "An example document.doc", Word
will try to open it as An.doc, example.doc, and document.doc (three times
individually), but since they do not exist, it creates an error.

Oddly enough, "An example document.ppt" opens just fine.

The solution you suggested doesn't work unfortunately. Word will remain trying
to open spaced documents separately.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385

--- Comment #18 from Ivan Tham   2010-02-13 19:29:40 ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> If you try to open in Nautilus a document like "An example document.doc", Word
> will try to open it as An.doc, example.doc, and document.doc (three times
> individually), but since they do not exist, it creates an error.
> Oddly enough, "An example document.ppt" opens just fine.
> The solution you suggested doesn't work unfortunately. Word will remain trying
> to open spaced documents separately.

Are you positive you followed the steps correctly? (i.e., Did you make the
shell script executable and type the following command in one line?

wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe" "`winepath -w
"$@"`"

I used the provided solution and it works fine for me as well as a few others.
If it works for us, then there is no reason it should not work for you, as the
Bash shell should be in whatever distro you're using.

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #19 from Gogol   2010-02-14 10:29:57 ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > If you try to open in Nautilus a document like "An example document.doc", Word
> > will try to open it as An.doc, example.doc, and document.doc (three times
> > individually), but since they do not exist, it creates an error.
> > Oddly enough, "An example document.ppt" opens just fine.
> > The solution you suggested doesn't work unfortunately. Word will remain trying
> > to open spaced documents separately.
>
> Are you positive you followed the steps correctly? (i.e., Did you make the
> shell script executable and type the following command in one line?
>
> wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe" "`winepath -w
> "$@"`"
>
> I used the provided solution and it works fine for me as well as a few others.
> If it works for us, then there is no reason it should not work for you, as the
> Bash shell should be in whatever distro you're using.

Ah, having it in one line seems to be the problem. I changed the ` for a ', as
the command didn't work when spreading it on two lines, but that resulted in
Word opening spaced documents separately. Now that I changed back the ' for a `
and put everything on one line, everuthing seems to work fine. Thanks!

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--- Comment #20 from Marius Marais   2010-03-15 04:42:40 ---
A few ways of launching Word document "Open source at your company.docx":
 1. wine 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE' "`winepath -w
"/home/FFAD/marius/Desktop/Open source at your company.docx"`"
 2. Double-clicking
 3. wine start /ProgIDOpen Word.Document.12 "/home/FFAD/marius/Desktop/Open
source at your company.docx"

With a default install, only 1 works (note the excessive quoting), with 2-3
making Word sound like William Shatner.  (3 is used internally when
double-clicking.)

Using the Regedit advice above, I changed
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12\shell\Open\command(default) from:
  "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde
to
  "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde "%1"
.

Now 1-3 all work.

The same sort of Regedit changes work for Word.Document.8 (doc) and other files
that don't open correctly by themselves.

(wine --version => wine-1.1.40)

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #21 from Michael Duelli   2010-03-15 05:09:53 ---
Thank you! This is a nice solution. I can confirm that it is working.

So the only thing needed to bypass this bug is a couple of registry changes.

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--- Comment #22 from leighman   2010-03-15 07:19:37 ---
This doesn't seem to work for me :(

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #23 from Jan Hoogenraad   2010-03-15 15:27:01 ---
Works for me for Word 2000 and Excel 2000, except that the Word.Document.12
setting was located at Word.Document.8
For Powerpoint, I did not have the problem, and installation of Powerpoint 2000
indeed already included the "%1"

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #24 from leniviy   2010-03-23 07:39:05 ---
imho, in dlls/shell32/shlexec.c
remove outdated function SHELL_execute_class() - not uses DDE
and somehow use execute_from_key() - uses DDE

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--- Comment #25 from leniviy   2010-03-23 11:05:40 ---
Created an attachment (id=26994)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=26994)
shell32: enable dde for SEE_MASK_CLASSALL

please test. should fix

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #26 from leniviy   2010-03-25 10:20:23 ---
Oh com'on, the other day there were so many of you pleading for a fix and now
total ignore. You ruin my faith in humanity.

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--- Comment #27 from leighman   2010-03-25 14:23:25 ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> Oh com'on, the other day there were so many of you pleading for a fix and now
> total ignore. You ruin my faith in humanity.

I really tried to test with it but I can't work git at all :(
Didn't seem to be applying properly...

[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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--- Comment #28 from leighman   2010-03-25 14:38:09 ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> Oh com'on, the other day there were so many of you pleading for a fix and now
> total ignore. You ruin my faith in humanity.

Awesome, I think it works!
I applied the patch, I think, then changed the wine-extension-doc.desktop so it
used /wine-git/wine and it worked.  It then didn't work when I changed it back
to wine.
Might be worth someone else checking tho :P

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--- Comment #29 from leighman   2010-04-08 10:45:51 ---
This is fixed for me in .42 =D

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--- Comment #30 from Austin English   2010-04-08 12:23:36 ---
Fixed by
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commitdiff;h=9ff19d1d48018e71e75ee4....

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--- Comment #31 from Alexandre Julliard   2010-04-16 13:02:39 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.43.

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