On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 08:18 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > > 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 think it should be possible to copy most of the data and if the path > of the OOo installation is the same you should be able to copy even all > the data without problems. >
Oh good a dissenter. Well I do hope you and the OP have enough sense to keep version specific templates. Overwriting these causes problems. > What Brian is missing is the sversion.ini file that OOo1.x looks for in > his "application data" folder. So he first must use the OOo setup to > create a new user directory together with the sversion.ini file. After > this the new user folder can be overwritten by the data from the backup. > (Of course "sversion.ini" could also be recovered from a backup or > created manually.) > I think that what is in sversion* is the various release of OOo present on the machine and has nothing to do with copying various settings. However you can do what you want. > Remark: OOo2.0 doesn't need an sversion.ini anymore. So in a similar > case with that version it will be sufficient to copy the userdata folder > to the appropriate place. > > Best regards, > Mathias > I certainly do not recommend that anyone do this. There are too many release specific variables and files that, if overwritten with old stuff, can severely affect how OOo behaves. -- 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]
