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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 17 11:34:33 +0000 2007 ------- Hello, and thanks for taking the time to consider my comments... The 'File Association Repair' only *attempts* to reset them - it does not check/repair permissions if the perms on the registry settings that store them get muffed, nor does it report a failure to properly set them if it fails - and this has happened to me at least 4 or 5 times in the years that I have been using OOo. I'm *not* saying that it was OOo that muffed them - but I *am* saying that if they can be repaired manually (by changing perms), then they can be repaired automatically (as long as the repair attempt is run by a user with admin rights). There is no reason that a properly coded FAM couldn't test if current user has admin rights, and if so, it is 'enabled' in the GUI - if not, it is greyed out, with a message saying that this functionality requires being logged in as a user with admin rights. If the User has admin rights, then the FAM could easily test if required registry settings exist - if not, create them - then test if the perms on them are correct - if not, reset them - then, change the File Associations to whatever the user is requesting. Of course, if the filesystem itself is corrupted, then there is nothing that OOo can or should do about that, except maybe provide an error message to this effect. Lastly, I have had a *lot* of cases where I would like to be able to easily switch back and forth the Microsoft Office associations between MSO (or whatever they were set to before the OOo install) and OOo (including proper Template behavior) - but OOo doesn't record their previous state, so there is no way to do this. Providing this ability directly in the GUI preferences will only instill a new level of confidence with people who want to test OOo out side by side with MSO. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
