Gary Schnabl wrote:
And I fixed some of the problems on my old Ubuntu setup by renaming
the .ooo-dev and .ooo-dev3 folders of user settings (found in XP under
Documents and Setting\[username]\Application Data). At least the
program opens now! The .ooo-dev3 folder is obsolete now anyway; it's
been superceded by .ooo-dev\3. And OOo_m4 recreates .ooo-dev\3. Of
course all my settings are gone, but whatever was causing crashes and
failures to open seems to have gone with it.
I had named a new folder OOo 3.0.0 and installed into that. The
installer includes OOo-dev and OOo-dev 3 subfolders, along with other
folders. Why should having other primary folder names matter to OOo when
practically every other application doesn't require that? Is installing
OOo that fussy?
I was referring to renaming (as a precursor to deleting) the
user-settings folders, not the folders into which OOo installs itself.
The names may be the same, but the locations are different. As for
your (possibly rhetorical) question "why should ...", I haven't a clue.
--Jean
