G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:33 -0400, David Teague wrote:
Some Windows packages eat their data files when the
packages are removed. I wonder if there is any remote
possibility that OO.o uninstall could possibly eat .odt or
.sxw files?
I had 19.69, 19.95 and 1.9.100 all installed. I wanted to
remove *69 and *95 but keep 100 and install 109. I carefully
backed up all the .odt files on my system, removed .69 and
.95 then installed 109. While nothing was amiss afterwards,
I still want some knowledgeable person to reassure me, to wit,
"It ain't gonna happen."
Thanks
With Windows, who knows.
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!
However, removing old versions of OOo will not
remove any personal files that are kept outside of either your My
Documents.
This sentence doesn't quite parse, but in any case your personal files
are safe no matter where they are. The removal routine doesn't touch
anything in My Documents and it only removes a specific list of files
from the OpenOffice folder under Program Files. The folder itself always
remains... it doesn't have much in it, but it's not completely empty
either. IIRC, the main thing it leaves behind is the Gallery.
What will go away are personal settings, dictionaries et cetera unless
you move them out of wherever OOo is installed.
Not quite right. All that stuff is in a folder in the (normally hidden)
Application Data folder. This folder -- and the contents -- also remains
after program removal. Each version of OOo (at least in the 1.x series
and the betas) creates a new version of this folder named
OpenOffice1.x.x as appropriate.
Rod
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