On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > From my point it is important to point out (and also discuss) that the > installation of a AOO 4.0 - our planned next major release - will not > migrate/use a user profile from a former installed AOO (or OOo) version. > This has been also mentioned in our blog "Your top questions answered", > answer to question 10 [1]. > > It is a consequence of the new version number - "4.0" - as the major version > number - "4" - is part of the folder/directory path to the user profile. > But, it is already a consequence of the completed renaming from > "OpenOffice.org" to "Apache OpenOffice" as the productname (in a certain > form) is also part of the folder/directory path to the user profile - see > issue 121388. > > We have a lot of trouble with the migration/usage of user profiles of former > installed OOo 3.x versions - unfortunately I could never reproduce these > problems and thus I could not work on a fix. Thus, not migrate/use a user > profile from former installed AOO (or OOo) versions would solve these > problems. >
If we have not figured out exactly what causes the current OOo 3.3.0 -> AOO 3.4.x profile migration problems, how are we certain that these problems will not come back when we migrate AOO 4.0 to AOO 4.1 ??? -Rob > Let the discussion begin :-) > > [1] https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered > > > Best regards, Oliver. >
