In news:013301cc347e$2f0d5bb0$8d281310$@acm.org, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> typed: > You may be running up against a permissions problem on > Windows XP. Are you running from an administrator > account (something too many distros assume)? If that's > not it, it may be very difficult to troubleshoot. > > For example, the portable build may be attempting to > store the settings somewhere that is read-only or > denied-access and not reporting (or not even checking) > that the write is failing. > > You may also be running into a Windows trick that diverts > the write to a different "shadow" place, so the > application succeeds, but the restarted app can't find > them. (I can't remember if that was new with Vista or it > made an appearance in one of the XP Service Packs.) > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: planas [mailto:jsloz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 20:14 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with paths > > On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 13:49 +0000, Herbert Fromme wrote: > >>>> On 13/04/2011 12:01, Jeffrey Needle wrote: >>>>> Hello, everyone. I'm using the portable build of >>>>> LibreOffice from portableapps.com on a WinXP system. >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to change the documents directory that >>>>> LibreOffice uses. I go to Options, Paths and change >>>>> the documents path. I click OK. I close LO, reopen >>>>> it, and the change to the path is lost. I can't find >>>>> any way to get the change to the path to stick. Is >>>>> this a known bug? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >> >> I have exactly the same problem, changes to paths don't >> stick. After closing and reopening Libre Office, the >> changes have been lost. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> HF
AFAIK, none of that applies to XP. XP Pro SP3+, LO 3.3.x, and Paths setup. Would apply to win 7 though for sure. Likely also Vista. HTH, Twayne` -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
