OO.o 3.0.1; XP Pro SP3, P4, 3.7 GHz, 1.5Gig RAM., lots of drive space, etc..
I am confused and perhaps someone here can straighten me out as to whether this was my own aberration or that of OO.o. I checked Help, About, and found that I had version 3.0 of OO.o. So, I went ahead and downloaded 3.0.1. The installation went "funny" is the only way I can think of to describe it, but it worked. Instead of past windows about keeping current settings, did I want it to manage all the MS Office files, etc., all I had was an installation box with a very slow progress bar that over and over did various things according to the message where it explained what it was doing. It took what seemed like forever, but finally it finished. I did a restart, like I always do, whether it's necessary or not, and started Oo.o. Looked in the Programs menu and it was there, as expected, along with my older 3.0 install. Started the Control Panel or whatever it's called, got a welcome message or something I forget now, started Writer, all seemed well. Installation looked OK, and hashes checked out fine earlier, BTW. It still seemed awfully odd that the ONLY thing shown for the install though, was that one dialog box with the repeating progress bar as various things happened; no questions for keeping settings, taking over MS Office associations, etc.. Nothing but that one dialog box. So for grins, I opened version 3.0 which I purposely didn't uninstall, just in case .1 had something kinky in it on me. Lo and behold, Help About showed my old 3.0 as 3.0.1!! Nahh, can't be, I said to myself, so I turned around and used my old desktop shortcuts to open it. It was STILL 3.0.1; none of my shortcuts led to the older 3.0 version anymore. Is/was it just me, or is that what should have happened with 3.0.1? I can't possibly see how it would be me, since I specifically checked my rev before doing the .1 download, so it must be the program did that; right? Huh? lol, I am confused! I suppose it could have been me somehow, but ... darned if I can see how! And while I'm at it here, I want to unload on a huge annoyance, nay a very real frustration with the download and install, although they worked OK. >From start to finish, version 3.0.1 is labelled just *3.0* in ALL windows, dialogs, etc., the sole exception being ONLY the Help About window! Seeing so much 3.0 caused me to open another browser instance and go to the download again, and verify that I had actually chosen the correct download. I had. So I allowed it to complete, and it was indeed .1, but there was absolutely no way to tell that until I could fire up OO.o and look at Help About. IT SHOULD BE DIFFERENTIATED AT LEAST IN THE DOWNLOAD TITLES AND ANYWHERE THE VERSION SHOWS! Sorry to vent, but this latest download has been an awful annoyance and frustration, way too much for such a great application! IMO it's completely unacceptable. Unless of course, you're going to tell me it couldn't have happened that way, and I am all wet; in that case I guess it's only a minor annoyance<G>. Really curious to see the responses to this. Please don't guess if you aren't some kind of expert or guru status; I'm not interested in theories unless it's the only way to explain it. TIA, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
