Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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 The .ooo-dev3 folder is obsolete now anyway;
it's been superceded by .ooo-dev\3.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
Vista/OOo m4 named those folders a bit differently: C:\Users\<user
name>\AppData\Roaming\OOo-dev\3. So, how should it be renamed?
There were other folders there from previous version-3 installations:
OOo-dev3\ (from a month earlier) and OpenOffice.org3\ (from two weeks
ago). I just deleted those--leaving OOo-dev\ and OOo-dev2\.
Gary
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