"Paul B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:ctou7s$ubr$1 @sea.gmane.org:
What I was hoping for was a way to point all future versions of OOo to a common directory that contained my user files, and thus be able to leave the files in place there. I'd rather change the filespec than have to copy files each time (from m62 to m65, to m67, to m71, etc.). I think it can be done, guess I'm going to have to dig into it.
I'd love this too; and now the file formats have settled down, it ought to be possible. For the moment, I simply copy over the whole user subdirectory to the new version, which seems to work. But it's not ideal.
In the 1.x versions, I used to have one directory for templates, macros, and dictionaries called "OOo common", and pointed each successive version there in the paths dialogue. I don't know that was any less trouble.
I set it up last night, coincidentally to a directory I named ...\application data\Openoffice common. I've dumped my dictionary, autocorrect, autotext, and templates there. Then I copied the current Config directory over as a subdirectory, and pointed the latest beta to it.
One of the unknowns for me was OOo's use of multiple user files for the likes of autocorrect. I didn't know which one was being currently used. So I nuked them all and pointed only to the one in the new directory.
What remains to be seen is how much work will required to point the next beta to this setup. Will just the config path need to be specced? Or each item separately? Either way, I think having one file to point to, and all of them in one directory, is a winner.
Hopefully pointing to the config path will also take care of other particular ritual issues, such as nuking the "Help" Agent.
Paul
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