Thanks, it worked for me today! I think I hit one URL too many when I was
trying to download yesterday.
Thanks again!
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From: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:52 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [users] can't get to download page!
On 07/16/2010 07:38 AM, James Knott wrote:
R A Hatcher wrote:
I have been an OpenOffice user for a while now, but I'm having a
problem. I'm having to reinstall all my
3rd party programs due to a computer crash, and can't get to the
download page. Does anyone know
what is going on - is it me or their server? Thanks for any assistance!
Arlene
It works fine for me. Try again from www.openoffice.org.
Can you access the web site? If not, try CNN.com or Google.com to see if
your
system is working properly. Also sometimes the browser security options
may
be messed up and not allow you to download an EXE file. That happened to
me once with
Windows.
So below is some links. The first one is a direct link to "ibiblio - the
public's library and digital archive"
mirror for OOo. If you did not want Windows with Java Runtime engine,
then copy the link, but drop the
filename. Then that will give you the entire list. Windows is near the
bottom of the list shown.
Here is a link to one of the mirrors for the downloads.
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/openoffice/stable/3.2.1/OOo_3.2.1_Win_x86_install-wJRE_en-US.exe
Right Click the link and use the save as option.
I found the mirror from this page of OOo's site.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors
Sometimes it works faster to download from one of the mirrors.
One thing that I do, for my protection, besides the standard data backups,
is save the
install files for all the software I need to use when I need to install /
re-install to a new/old
computer. I usually create a CD/DVD with these files so I do not have to
look up all of the
files from their web sites.
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Also, it is always nice to have an external drive as a backup for the data
and installable files.
You can get a device to plug into a spare drive, so it works like an
external USB drive, or you
can buy a dedicated external drive, like I have [1 TB] for saving my data
files and photos, etc..
This way, every time I download a new update for OOo or other such
software, I place it on the
external drive as a backup for later, if needed.
Also, I have a web page that lists much of the free Windows software
that I have used. http://www.lungstrom.com/list/ Go to the blue boxes and
choose the sub-list
item. First one [left] is Text. . . ., mouse over it and click on Office
Software, the first one listed
is OpenOffice.org, and then you click on "their site" button and it
directs you to the software's
web site pages where you can down it from, unless they change the download
page. I created
this to show people what free software is out there for Windows. I did
this along with creating the
CDs or DVDs with the install files of all these different free programs.
The only trouble is I have to
keep remaking the DVDs when the software is updated.
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