Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Each of the m1 through m4 updates are progressively getting worse on
my Vista Ultimate system. In fact, the older betas were more
dependable than any of the m1 through m4 series. m4 was cleanly
installed after m3 was uninstalled via its unistaller.
At first, with m4 (3.0.0) I experienced a number of older files
created with m3 refusing to start before they opened and closed
abruptly. After several application restarts, I can now open or
create files again.
However, only the three preinstalled extensions will run. Every time
I try to add any of the older extension files via browsing to their
paths, I get a dialog box telling me that it cannot connect to
another (nonexistent) folder on another hard-drive partition. Then I
tried downloading and tried to install the extensions again that
way. No dice. Same problem. So, now I cannot even install any
extensions.
Anybody have any idea why the newer and improved updates are getting
worse? September 1 is tomorrow (today for some...), and a release
candidate of OOo is imminent...
I had some major problems with some of the earlier developers' builds
of OOo3 on WinXP, but I haven't noticed any problems with extensions
or anything else with recent "m" builds, not that I've used OOo much
on Windows. I just updated to m4 on WinXP and got a bunch of error
messages during the installation, but it opened okay and I downloaded
and installed some extra extensions without any problem. I haven't
attempted to do much other than open a PDF using PDFImport (which
worked fine).
However, I've had lots of problems just getting recent builds to work
(or sometimes, to open) on one of my Ubuntu machines (lots of error
messages during the installation, and Calc refuses to open even when
the other components work); m3 and m4 would not open any components.
Over the weekend I did a clean Ubuntu install on a spare machine and
then a clean install of OOom3 on that, and all seems to be well. I
just updated to m4 there, and so far it's okay.
--Jean
The past few (starting with m1 or m2?) versions would not allow their
file associations to work on Vista when clicking on their (blank) icons.
Nor could I get Vista to accept their file associations to take hold
when doing so in the usual manner. It appears that each newer version of
the new series of pre-RC versions is worse than the one preceding. Now,
the extensions manager is useless. Are my problems (plural) unique, or
are others experiencing them also?
Yesterday, I just went over Vista in detail with a number of system
utility packages and the OOo problems are still there. I will attempt
another uninstall and clear reinstall again. None of the registry fixes
the utilities detected seem to have involved OOo.
Gary
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