On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:48:38 +0000
jonathon <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:52, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>>The question is, what are the files where these things reside?
>
>user/autocorr
What I meant to ask was what is the name of the folder in ~/? For
example, in OOo 2.x it was called ~/.openoffice.org2, for 3.0 the "2"
was dropped (which I found confusing, but oh well). Now I have two
folders:
~/.ooo3.new
~/.openoffice.org
I don't recall ever seeing ooo3.new before when I had 3.0 on Jaunty, so
is that the new folder?
>The file name is of the form acor_two letter language abbreviation_two
>letter country abbreviation.dat.
>From what you wrote above, the filename is acor_en-US.dat
>
>For a clean install of any distro, the data that was on the drive is
>completely wiped, then the distro is installed.
>
>To get your old files back, you have to copy them from an
>archived/backup source. If you didn't burn them to CD/DVD, or put
>them on a _second_ drive used only for archiving data, you have lost
>all that data.
>
>If you did burn them to CD/DVD, or use a second drive purely for
>archival purposes, then find the user directory that you backed up,
>and copy the entire contents of the autocorr, autotext, config,
>wordbook, and template directories over to your new installation.
I do have a complete system backup of my old Jaunty installation on
another drive. I bought a brand new hard drive for my laptop and
installed Fedora 11 on it. I mounted the old drive in a USB enclosure
and copied the ~/.openoffice.org folder to the new Fedora ~/. I did
that before launching OOo the first time. Now I have two folders.
Looking through them I find my templates, extensions, and other
personalizations in both. However, I note that the data structure of
the folders is different:
~/.ooo3.new
user
many files and folders
~/.openoffice.org
3
user
many files and folders
>> The entire AutoCorrect feature appears to be missing.
>
>I _think_ you are using one of the no-go variants of OOo. The default
>no-go installation omits a number of features that people find
>useful, and adds several show stopping bugs, that should require
>immediate recall, and be fixed, because their inefficiency experts
>live in Fantasy Land.(To call them show stopping bugs, is to
>underestimate the degree to which they cripple the functionality of
>OOo. On a scale on 1 - 100, in importance to fix, these rate at
>least 10 000, if not 100 000.
>
>>And why would Fedora install OOo without installing all its features?
>
>The theory is that people don't use the features that aren't included.
It's definitely a distro-customized version of 3.1.1, that is, a no-go
version of some sort. I fully understand the difference between no-go
versions and the "real" OOo from the website. It's just that if they
disabled AutoCorrect I find it incredible that they would do so in the
first place, and also incredible that I'm the first person who has
noticed it. Besides, I do have the acor_en-US.dat file. Why would I
even have such a file if AutoCorrect was disabled?
This morning after my second cup of coffee I thought it might be
intelligent to see what is in my acor_en-US.dat. Nautilus identified it
as an archive, so I opened it in File Roller. Inside is a file called
DocumentList.xml of 51.8 KB. That is large enough to contain all my
personal AutoCorrect entries from over the years. I opened it in Gedit
and, sure enough, it contains all my favorite typos. So I haven't lost
my entries. I also note that the same acor_en-US.dat file exists in
both of my ~/ config folders. The time stamp and byte size is the same
for both copies.
I generally use Yumex for package management on Fedora. I searched on
"openoffice" and pored through all the packages. Everything seems to be
installed, including the language pack for US English. However, if a
package is not installed it might not even be in the repositories. If
it's not in the repositories I wouldn't see it. So to tell for sure
that there is not a missing package it would be helpful to know the
name of the .rpm package that installs the AutoCorrect feature.
It also occurred to me to check on Java. I know there are features of
OOo that don't work if you haven't told OOo to use a Java package.
However, checking in Options > Java I note that I have two Java
packages installed on the system and one of them (Sun Microsystems 1.6)
is checked.
I should reiterate that it appears that the entire feature is missing.
According to the Help file when you go into Tools > Options >
AutoCorrect Options, you should get a popup dialog box with five tabs.
One of the tabs is Replace, and that tab is missing.
If anyone has further suggestions I'd sure like to hear them.
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