Gary Schnabl wrote:
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 The .ooo-dev3 folder is obsolete now anyway;
it's been superceded by .ooo-dev\3.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.
Vista/OOo m4 named those folders a bit differently: C:\Users\<user
name>\AppData\Roaming\OOo-dev\3. So, how should it be renamed?
Doesn't matter what you rename them. In fact, you could probably
delete OOo-dev\3, as you did the others you mention below. The idea of
renaming was just to make it something that OOo doesn't recognise, but
be able to restore it if my trick made things worse.
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\.
--Jean
