I was running, for some time, both OO and LO on my Win7-64 laptop, with no problems. I had LO set as the default to open document, spreadsheet, and database files. OO was still set for "txt" files. And this all worked as it should. But since I was very seldom using OO, and it really wasn't necessary for OO to open "txt" files, I uninstalled OO from my computer completely. This was done "just in case" there is anything to what it said on the website about conflicts, when I downloaded and installed LO 3.3.3 final. But there really should be no reason for "conflicts" once you set whichever program you want to open which type files. And this should be taken care of when the programs are installed. If you want to change that some where down the road, just use the "open with default program"/ file association applet in Windows to change it. Or if you just want to use the "other"/non-default program from time to time, use the right click menu and "open with". I had a side by side installation since the original release of LO, up until about 5 days ago, and had no problems whatsoever. Roxy
Jack wrote: > > I believe there may be some slight issues due to the fact that both > LibO and OOo have the same process name (soffice.exe). Ah-hah! Now we're getting somewhere. It's not about the file types, it's about the "process name". This is potentially a serious issue if it prevents users from having both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org be usable on their system. So, what is the solution? Change the name(s) of LibO's executable(s)? You could download LibreOfficePortable > (portableapps.com/libreofficeportable). It doesn't involve any > registry entries as it is made to run from a flash-disk (all the > "settings" are contained in sub folders rather than the registry). > Version 3.3.2 is available. Thank you, a reasonable suggestion (but see the bug referenced upthread, about conflict between LibO Portable and OOo.) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Side-by-side-install-of-LibO-and-OOo-tp3078835p3 085362.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] 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
