On 20/03/2021 08:55, Luuk wrote:
>
> On 19-3-2021 19:55, Dave Barton wrote:
>> On 19/03/2021 17:36, Luuk wrote:
>>> On 19-3-2021 18:03, Dave Barton wrote:
I make a full backup of my main Windows 10 production machine every
week
and store those backups for at least 3 weeks. For many years I have
found this to be a good insurance policy against most forms of
corruption. Unfortunately, LO has succeeded in defeating the
benefits of
this policy.
For the past 3 weeks I have been working, mostly with Writer, in
blissful ignorance of the fact that my profile has been partially
corrupted. I say partially, because only the default "AutoCorrect >
Replace" options have disappeared, while the rest of my extensive
profile remains in perfect working order. Obviously, this condition has
existed for a least 3 weeks, because restoring my profile from backups
does not resolve the issue.
I really would like to avoid the pain of fully rebuilding my profile
from scratch, so if anyone can offer any pointers or tips about
restoring just I would be
extremely grateful.
Regards
Dave
>>>
>>> You profile is stored in:
>>>
>>> C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4
>>>
>>> you can rename this directory, and restart LO, then this directory will
>>> be re-created (with the default).
>>>
>>> Now you only have to find out where the autocorrect settins are in this
>>> profile (if there are any...)
>>>
>>> On my system the autocorrect things seem to be stored in:
>>>
>>> "C:\Users\Luuk\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\autocorr\acor_nl-NL.dat"
>>>
>>>
>>> At least, that was my conclusion when opening that file with 7-zip, and
>>> seeing the contents of 'DocumentList.xml' which did contains a manually
>>> added entry in the auto correct list.
>> Hi Luuk,
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to reply. I fully understand the structure of
>> the user profile and I see acor_en_GB.dat and acor_en_US.dat in the
>> autocorr subdirectory.
>>
>> Fixes I have tried:
>>
>> * Delete one or both those dat files, with a full system restart each
>> time.
>>
>> * Delete both the dat files and replace them with copies from a new
>> install on an identical machine.
>>
>> All failed to restore the default "AutoCorrect > Replace" options.
>>
>> There has to be some other configuration setting in the profile that
>> influences this option.
>>
>> Getting late here, so tomorrow I will spend a "less than enjoyable" day
>> reconstructing my profile and writing a program to trigger a backup of
>> my good profile _*BEFORE*_ LO ever starts and gets the opportunity to
>> attack and corrupt my profile again.
>>
>> Regards
>> Dave
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe too late, but the path under Tools/Options/"LibrOffice/Paths"
>
> has an "AutoCorrect" setting, which should be set to the UsersPath:
>
> "C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\autocorr"
>
> The internalpath is set to:
>
> "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\autocorr" (or:
> "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\autocorr")
>
> In this latest directory i do see all default autocorrect files for
> different languages.
>
> But unfortunately there seems to be another setting missing?
Hi Luuk,
Many thanks for following up on this.
Yes, the "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\autocorr" directory holds
all the language masters of the acor_xx_xx.dat files and as the user
profile languages are added the relevant acor_xx_xx.dat files are copied
to "C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\autocorr".
Manually copying acor_en_GB.dat and acor_en_US.dat to my profile
"C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\autocorr" did
not resolve my issue.
However. I have now succeeded in rebuilding my profile and I have
written a new profile backup and LO launch program.
Regards
Dave
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