> You'll get a full Office installation directly located at > instsetoo_native/wnt????/OpenOffice/installed/install/<your languages>
Unfortunately some of the pathnames under that install folder are so extremely verbose and redundant, that for a very reasonable build tree root c:\ooo\svn\trunk\build\ooh680-m5, the pathname to the .xcu files come out as for instance... (drum roll): c:\ooo\svn\trunk\build\ooh680-m5\instsetoo_native\wntmsci10.pro\OpenOffice\installed\install\en-US\OpenOffice.org2\user\uno_packages\cache\registry\com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Common.xcu (Three instances of "openoffice", plus one "office", plus "com.sun.star". So there definitely should be no risk of confusion what product that directory hierarchy refers too! Three instances of "registry". Redundancy is Good.) That is 260 characters and thus over the Windows limit of 256 (or 255, or 254, this is a bit unclear). Of course, it would be too easy if OOo simply just told you "too long pathname". Instead it throws you lovely dialogs that shows the long pathnames and asks a question "Do you want to continue startup without the corrupted configuration data? [yes] [no]" Consider that question. If one clicks yes, does that mean one doesn't want to continue startup at all, or just that one wants to continue startup but without the corrupted configuration data? If one clicks no, does that mean one doesn't want to continue startup at all, or that one wants to continue even with corrupted configuration data? Fun. Anyway, luckily it turns out that one can just move the subtree starting from the "en-US" folder somewhere closer to the root, and the problem goes away. --tml --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]