On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:45 -0400, Brian van den Broek wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently had my WinMe laptop die on me. I was not able to save all > of my configuration files before my HDD turned into a post-modern > paper weight. I did however manage to save a copy of everything in > C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.4\user.
That was good. Your personal stuff is there for reuse. > > I have managed to install OOo 1.1.4 on my new WinXP machine just fine. > My settings have been a bit more difficult. I tried simply copying > my saved user dir over top of the user dir created when I installed > OOo 1.1.4, but this didn't work. (As in, attempts to run OOo lead to > the splash screen and soffice showing up in the Windows task list, but > then when the splash screen closed, soffice dropped out of the task > list and I had no running OOo instance.) > You cannot simply overwrite user as you found out. What you can do is copy templates and dictionaries, one-at-a-time from old_users to new_users and put them in the correct directory of new_users. > I uninstalled and reinstalled OOo 1.1.4 and it runs fine. But, I had > tweaked the interface a fair bit, established quite a few templates, > customized my dictionary, etc., etc. Any advice about how to carry > over what settings I have from my WinMe installation user directory tree? > > If possible, please cc me on any responses. Thanks and best, > Hope this helps. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
