Hi all,
There is a very annoying, hmmm, well, I suppose you could call it a
feature, but I call it a bug ;-) when you install or upgrade OOo over a
previous installation.
This bug is that if you agree to having your data copied over (as do
most sane people who've carried out personal configuration of their OOo
environment), then the "copy over" routine automatically recreates ODB
files corresponding to the datasources that were already declared. If
these datasources already existed as ODB files, then the copies take the
same name as the original and an incremented number is appended to the
file name. All of these files get created in the user's home directory
on a Linux box, and just keep on cluttering up the directory, especially
since, once copied, they become utterly useless.
Is there no way to stop this (mis)behaviour ? I checked one of my Linux
boxes used for testing dev versions and stable versions of OOo (same
user), and it had 15 different Cabinet*.odb files. Having to plough
through the list to find which one was actually the one that functioned
was particularly irksome and time wasting. It wouldn't be so bad if the
user was told with a message which of his newly created copies would
actually work.
Surely, this feature ;-) can be turned off somehow ? Maybe an issue has
been filed for this already ?
Alex
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