Hi David,

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, David B Teague wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> I recall being able to repair an installation of OO.o by running the install
> program using a "repair" option. When I try to run the install program now
> it says it "can't install, versions are the same."
> Did I dream the repair installation? Or perhaps it was MS Word?

You could run the 'repair installation' if you have not removed
the unpacked 'OpenOffice.org installation files'.
E.g. right-click at <openofficeorg24.msi> gives you the maintenance options
of the installation wizard to modify or to repair the installed version of
the program.

> Anyhow, my system is Windows XP, Simpron 1.8 GHz, 1 Gig RAM, OO.o 2.4,
>
> Problem: On opening one specific document, I get an error saying "General
> Error; General i/o error" cannot find file,
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.OWNER-2IEKCC09P\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\E1D.tmp_\Pagination-1.3.1.oxt\Pagination/script.xlb
>
> I looked, sure enough the directory that was supposed to hold script.xlb was
> empty.
>
> I got tired of this error message so I looked at the several of files of
> this name, and copied one by this name to this directory. When I opened the
> file again, it stated that a different file was missing from the same
> directory, dialog.xlb this time.  So I copied one of them in. This stopped
> the error messages and it hasn't changed anything else (so far).
>
> It is the "so far" I am concerned about.  Now I admit, this sounds DUMB, but
> it seems to have worked.
>
> What ARE these files? What do they do? What might have removed them?

I'm not quite sure ...  ;-)

> More importantly, how can I fix the problem in a less ad hoc way, back as
> things should be?

In that case a 'repair installation' wouldn't change anything,
because the failure concerned in the added extension <Pagination.oxt>,
which is not part of the 'installation files'.

In my opinion the easiest way to fix the problem would be:

Going to
Tools | Extension Manager | My extensions

Selecting <Pagination-1.x.oxt>  ->  <Remove>

After restarting OOo you could make again a clean installation
of the extension:
<My extensions>  ->  <Add>.

Manfred

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