On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:18:11 +0100 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues: > >> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues > > So if this is our #1 issue, is there anything we can do to improve it? > > Deleting the profile is really a power-user remedy. > > There is surely someone on this list who can hack together a few lines > of Visual Basic (or whatever; even a .BAT file would work) and build a > "profile renaming tool" we can point people to. > > > Has anyone tried to figure out exactly what is happening? Is there > > anyway we can finally fix this in AOO 4.0? > > It's hard to reproduce since it depends on customizations. But I believe > it will be fixed automatically in 4.0 since new major releases should > start with a clean profile (they use a different folder name anyway, and > I don't believe users will be upset if we don't migrate their 3.x > customizations to 4.0). > > Regards, > Andrea. > I think professional writers and power users of OpenOffice will certainly wish that their customisations are preserved so that they may be transferred to AOO 4.0, even if this is not done automatically. A separate transfer utility would be a good idea. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
