If you click custom install rather than default you should be able to
change it to whatever install folder you want.
Matthew L. Avizinis
GregChi wrote:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:22:03 +1100, Dave Barton wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 01:32 -0800, Gloria Balut wrote:
Why can't users change the location of where OpenOffice gets
installed? I don't want programs on my C: drive. I keep that for the
OS only so I can keep an image and do an easy restore. I install
programs on a separate logical drive and keep my program data on a 3rd
drive so I can back that up fast. I've been wasting my time editing
all the registry entries OO did to point it in the right direction -
where I manually moved it.
I consider this a showstopper for windows people and will not be
recommending OO to them. I've used linux for the last 5 years and
cannot remember hitting the same wall with any other windows
application when I was using windows since maybe Win95 first came out.
Every other program allows the user to choose the directory where it
should be installed. And to not find this option in OO much stunned
me.
Please don't copy bad Windows programming.
Been there......Someone on these newsgroups showed me.....
The 'trick' is in _:\OpenOffice.org2\program\bootstrap.ini
[Bootstrap]
BaseInstallation=$ORIGIN/..
UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/..
(the above (2)are actual statements in the bootstrap.ini file of mine)
My share & user directories are now both in F:\OpenOffice.org2
pretty much NOTHING of OOo is in C drive!!!!!
[snippets]
The user installation directory is specified in
F:/OpenOffice.org2/program/bootstrap.ini. You can change it there to
point to ur new directory..
UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/OpenOffice.org2 [original line]
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In OOo 1.9.x/2.0, the path to the user installation is stored in
<ooo-path>\program\bootstrap.ini (key UserInstallation). If you set
UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/..
then your user data will be stored in a new directory <ooo-path>\user.
Dinesh & Stephan, Thanks
Greg
