Alaric Wood wrote: > TerryJ wrote: >> reply below >> >> Alaric Wood wrote: > > Thanks for that info. I have looked at /user but don't really know what > I should be looking for. 2.0 had a /user folder in /opt/.openoffice. > It contained Auto Correct, Auto Text, Backup. Config and Templates. As > /opt is not writable by user there were no backups and trying to use > /template/save naturally generated an error. The path statement pointed > to /home/OpenOffice/user but there was no user folder in /home. I > created one and added Autocorrect, etc. It then usually but not always > did a backup and I could save templates. There were other config files > in odd places under /opt. Some were blank, some appeared to relate to > menus and toolbars and one was a bau file. I don't know what bau is or > how to read it so that may be what I should have looked at. I can't now > check because installing 2.1 over wrote OpenOffice in both /opt and > /home. 2.1 has a user folder in home but not opt. It contains, guess > what, auto correct, etc. The path statement refers to autocorrect, > autotext, backup and templates and the default location to save files. > It does not mention config. In both 2.0 and 2.1 config is blank. I > cannot find any other config files in 2.1. I do not think Tools -> > Options is in fact saving anywhere but I may be wrong. > Maybe I should go back to 1.1.5. It has the difficulties with styles > that appear to be a constitutional problem with all OpenOffice versions > but at least I can usually make it do what I want even though it often > involves blood, toil, tears and sweat. However, that's computers. > > Alaric
Hi Alaric, You do realise that the /home/ files are in a "hidden" directory, using .openoffice.org2/ in my current installation (gentoo, but I used to run Mandriva)? I use KDE and one can set konqueror to "Show hidden files" I'm not sure about under gnome. HTH Russell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
