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Roy O'Donnell wrote:
Without my knowing consent, OO 2.0 installed itself on my computer, overriding OO 1.whatever-I-had.
That's basically impossible. It's not a virus that hitches a ride on an email and infects your machine. In order to get the program installed on your computer you had to do the following:
1. Navigate to the OpenOffice.org website.
2. *Explicitly* choose the OOo 2.0 Beta download.
3. *Explicitly* tell it which language, operating system, and download site you preferred.
4. Find the downloaded zip file on your hard-drive.
5. Right-click, choose extract and tell it where to extract the archive.
6. Navigate to that directory, find the setup.exe file, and double-click on it.
7. Answer several questions during the install process and agree to the licensing terms.
8. If you chose a multi-user installation, you would have been greeted with the licensing agreement screen a second time.
So, to be blunt, there's no way in hell, that "Without my knowing consent, OO 2.0 installed itself on [your] computer."
If anything, we have the opposite problem with people not being able to figure out how to make the installation happen.
My
computer started behaving very, very badly. After repeated, failed attempts to restore my XP SP2 machine to a workable, earlier state, I finally gave up and uninstalled OO 2.0 then downloaded and installed OO 1.4.1. Now NONE of my documents are "visible". When I attempt to open a document all I get is a blank page. The file listing indicates it's full o' bytes but nothing is displayed.
Did you by any chance open these documents with 2.0 (actually 2.0 *beta*, otherwise known as 1.9.87)? There have been several reports of corrupted sxw files when using the *beta* 2.0 software.
I find it hard to believe that OpenOrg would inflict upon me, without my explicit consent, a beta version of software that can do so much damage.
It's hard to believe because it didn't happen. You chose to install it, and had to go through several *explicit* steps to do exactly that. If you don't know what you're doing, you really should stick to stable, released software. A stable version of 2.0 should be released in a couple months or so. Until then you can expect odd crashes, corrupted files, and all other sorts of nasty experiences.
I am a newbie
to open source,
That's kinda obvious.
have been using using Firefox and OO
only a short time and have been singing their praises to anyone who'll listen but this OpenOffice nightmare leaves me stunned. This is not the friendly kind of foxy penguin love fest community experience I expected. PLEASE help me get my files back.
I wish I knew how. And I wish, for your sake, that you hadn't come on so strong, because your chances of getting help after flinging accusations like that around just went down dramatically.
The only thing I can think of to help is if you had 1.1.4 set to automatically create backup copies of your documents. (That's in Tools menu under "Load/Save".) If you did, the backup copies should be in:
C:/Documents and Settings/(your login)/Application Data/OpenOffice1.1.4/(somewhere)
Application Data is a hidden directory, so you have to tell windows explorer to show hidden files and folders. You'll just have to dig around, I can't remember the exact directory structure and I don't feel inclined to spend a lot of time at it.
And please
don't install anything without my permission.
Once again, nobody did.
Thank you to anyone who can help.
I hope this helps, and please don't answer to my private e-mail account. It will be deleted without reading.
Rod
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