Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of cp /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/config/LibreOffice/3/user Errr, i know you know cp = copy on a GnuLinux command-line but i don't know the equivalent in Mac. I would probably do this the clickdrag gui way tbh. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 9:47 Le 02/06/12 16:52, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : Hi, I just noticed that EVERY extension that I had installed were not carried over to 3.5.4, even though during the install process the status wording looked like it was going to. So, it that an error for 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 or was that a part of the 3.3.x to 3.4.x upgrading as well? I have seen this in many of the upgrade installations on Mac - each time I have to either delete my user profile or re-install the extensions, and I'm getting fed up with it. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of cp /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/config/LibreOffice/3/user Errr, i know you know cp = copy on a GnuLinux command-line but i don't know the equivalent in Mac. I would probably do this the clickdrag gui way tbh. Can you do soemthing like this on Macs? Do you have old back-ups of your user profile at a point when it was working well? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 9:47 Le 02/06/12 16:52, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : Hi, I just noticed that EVERY extension that I had installed were not carried over to 3.5.4, even though during the install process the status wording looked like it was going to. So, it that an error for 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 or was that a part of the 3.3.x to 3.4.x upgrading as well? I have seen this in many of the upgrade installations on Mac - each time I have to either delete my user profile or re-install the extensions, and I'm getting fed up with it. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
Tom as the OP of this thread, my real issue was while it was upgrading the status text indicated to me that is was going to transfer my user profile info and such. It did not do the proper job if it decided to transfer only the user name and other such data, and not all of the extensions he/she relies on. I thin someone said that the 3.5.x like uses a different folder for the user data. If so, maybe there is an error in the copying of that info to the new folder before that old folder was erased. I have not tried this 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 on a Ubuntu system, only a WinXP laptop. There must be a fix to this issue. Can you imagine what a business type of user has to go through to move 10, 50, 100 machines, using Windows, from 3.4.6 to a 3.5.x version if they have to reinstall ALL of their extensions, along with dealing with the custom install process to not have every single language dictionary possible during install automatically installed? On 06/03/2012 05:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of cp /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/config/LibreOffice/3/user Errr, i know you know cp = copy on a GnuLinux command-line but i don't know the equivalent in Mac. I would probably do this the clickdrag gui way tbh. Can you do soemthing like this on Macs? Do you have old back-ups of your user profile at a point when it was working well? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 9:47 Le 02/06/12 16:52, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : Hi, I just noticed that EVERY extension that I had installed were not carried over to 3.5.4, even though during the install process the status wording looked like it was going to. So, it that an error for 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 or was that a part of the 3.3.x to 3.4.x upgrading as well? I have seen this in many of the upgrade installations on Mac - each time I have to either delete my user profile or re-install the extensions, and I'm getting fed up with it. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
Hi :) The 3.5.x branch definitely does use a different folder for the users settings. For soem reason i got confused and gave the old and the new paths for Macs but the Windows pathname change is similar. For pre-Vista versions of Windows it used to be C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\LibreOffice\3\user\ But with the 3.5.x has changed to C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\config\LibreOffice\3\user\ If the upgrade process is claiming that it copies the folders and then doesn't that is really bad. If it still deletes the old folder than it's appalling! Losing data is one of the worst things that can happen in any system! Time for you to post a bug-report if you can! http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I still haven't tested the upgrade feature. I uninstall the old one and then 'reinstall' the new and then remember i was meant to take a copy of the first UserProfile folder and cuss and then do the least amount possible to set-up the profile but inevitably forget 1 or a few users and cuss again. Luckily it's only about a dozen machines now but i really need to be more organised so i can scale-up or at least do it more reliably and faster. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 15:12 Tom as the OP of this thread, my real issue was while it was upgrading the status text indicated to me that is was going to transfer my user profile info and such. It did not do the proper job if it decided to transfer only the user name and other such data, and not all of the extensions he/she relies on. I think someone said that the 3.5.x branch uses a different folder/path for the user data. If so, maybe there is an error in the copying of that info to the new folder before that old folder was erased. I have not tried this 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 on a Ubuntu system, only a WinXP laptop. There must be a fix to this issue. Can you imagine what a business type of user has to go through to move 10, 50, 100 machines, using Windows, from 3.4.6 to a 3.5.x version if they have to reinstall ALL of their extensions, along with dealing with the custom install process to not have every single language dictionary possible during install automatically installed? On 06/03/2012 05:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of cp /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/config/LibreOffice/3/user Errr, i know you know cp = copy on a GnuLinux command-line but i don't know the equivalent in Mac. I would probably do this the clickdrag gui way tbh. Can you do soemthing like this on Macs? Do you have old back-ups of your user profile at a point when it was working well? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 9:47 Le 02/06/12 16:52, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : Hi, I just noticed that EVERY extension that I had installed were not carried over to 3.5.4, even though during the install process the status wording looked like it was going to. So, it that an error for 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 or was that a part of the 3.3.x to 3.4.x upgrading as well? I have seen this in many of the upgrade installations on Mac - each time I have to either delete my user profile or re-install the extensions, and I'm getting fed up with it. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
Hi :) Ouch! I'm glad we have managed to avoid saying it sucks! (oops) I was really hoping the sensible way would work. Ideally i had imagined copying the old user-profile all around the place and then installing the newer LO so that 'a few' (hopefully not too many) settings might get changed or added. I'm sure it has worked for me but i haven't been taking much notice tbh. Mostly i just reconfigure whichever machine i happen to be hot-desking on but not in a structured and planned way. I've noticed users who complain about a thing not being set a certain way tend to set it back after i take the trouble to set it up the way they said they wanted. So, i tend to set things the way i prefer on my logins and leave them to it. I need to be more organised though. The xcu thing looks interesting. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 16:26 Am 03.06.2012 11:28, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 03/06/12 11:03, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of In theory, yes. In practice, YMMV. I always now systematically rename my LO user profile before installing a new version, then install the new version, start it once, and then replace the user profile created with my previously backed up one. It sucks that one should have to do this in order to preseve one's settings. I know of no other app where this is the case. IMHO, this is completely inacceptable because this program's productivity depends very much on customization. You can zip your profile and send it to the developers with detailed info about your system and which upgrade was spoiled by that particular profile. According to exprerience with parallel installations, extensions are the main culprit. You may try to remove all your additional extensions before installation and see if this helps somehow. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
What I hated was the status text seemed to tell me that the profile [all of it] was being transfered over. I thought that part of your profile was the extensions you added. I know if I delete the .libreoffice file in Ubuntu you loose the link to your added extensions. DID 3.5.x replace the folder name or change where the information is stored? On 06/03/2012 11:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! I'm glad we have managed to avoid saying it sucks! (oops) I was really hoping the sensible way would work. Ideally i had imagined copying the old user-profile all around the place and then installing the newer LO so that 'a few' (hopefully not too many) settings might get changed or added. I'm sure it has worked for me but i haven't been taking much notice tbh. Mostly i just reconfigure whichever machine i happen to be hot-desking on but not in a structured and planned way. I've noticed users who complain about a thing not being set a certain way tend to set it back after i take the trouble to set it up the way they said they wanted. So, i tend to set things the way i prefer on my logins and leave them to it. I need to be more organised though. The xcu thing looks interesting. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 16:26 Am 03.06.2012 11:28, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 03/06/12 11:03, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of In theory, yes. In practice, YMMV. I always now systematically rename my LO user profile before installing a new version, then install the new version, start it once, and then replace the user profile created with my previously backed up one. It sucks that one should have to do this in order to preseve one's settings. I know of no other app where this is the case. IMHO, this is completely inacceptable because this program's productivity depends very much on customization. You can zip your profile and send it to the developers with detailed info about your system and which upgrade was spoiled by that particular profile. According to exprerience with parallel installations, extensions are the main culprit. You may try to remove all your additional extensions before installation and see if this helps somehow. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: What I hated was the status text seemed to tell me that the profile [all of it] was being transfered over. I thought that part of your profile was the extensions you added. I know if I delete the .libreoffice file in Ubuntu you loose the link to your added extensions. DID 3.5.x replace the folder name or change where the information is stored? On 06/03/2012 11:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! I'm glad we have managed to avoid saying it sucks! (oops) I was really hoping the sensible way would work. Ideally i had imagined copying the old user-profile all around the place and then installing the newer LO so that 'a few' (hopefully not too many) settings might get changed or added. I'm sure it has worked for me but i haven't been taking much notice tbh. Mostly i just reconfigure whichever machine i happen to be hot-desking on but not in a structured and planned way. I've noticed users who complain about a thing not being set a certain way tend to set it back after i take the trouble to set it up the way they said they wanted. So, i tend to set things the way i prefer on my logins and leave them to it. I need to be more organised though. The xcu thing looks interesting. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 16:26 Am 03.06.2012 11:28, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 03/06/12 11:03, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of In theory, yes. In practice, YMMV. I always now systematically rename my LO user profile before installing a new version, then install the new version, start it once, and then replace the user profile created with my previously backed up one. It sucks that one should have to do this in order to preseve one's settings. I know of no other app where this is the case. IMHO, this is completely inacceptable because this program's productivity depends very much on customization. You can zip your profile and send it to the developers with detailed info about your system and which upgrade was spoiled by that particular profile. According to exprerience with parallel installations, extensions are the main culprit. You may try to remove all your additional extensions before installation and see if this helps somehow. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
Not Business ready then? On 2012-06-04 02:12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Tom as the OP of this thread, my real issue was while it was upgrading the status text indicated to me that is was going to transfer my user profile info and such. It did not do the proper job if it decided to transfer only the user name and other such data, and not all of the extensions he/she relies on. I thin someone said that the 3.5.x like uses a different folder for the user data. If so, maybe there is an error in the copying of that info to the new folder before that old folder was erased. I have not tried this 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 on a Ubuntu system, only a WinXP laptop. There must be a fix to this issue. Can you imagine what a business type of user has to go through to move 10, 50, 100 machines, using Windows, from 3.4.6 to a 3.5.x version if they have to reinstall ALL of their extensions, along with dealing with the custom install process to not have every single language dictionary possible during install automatically installed? On 06/03/2012 05:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines? Even between ones running different OSes? Is it not possible to copypaste the Extensions folder from the old folder position to the new one? Something like the equivalent of cp /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/config/LibreOffice/3/user Errr, i know you know cp = copy on a GnuLinux command-line but i don't know the equivalent in Mac. I would probably do this the clickdrag gui way tbh. Can you do soemthing like this on Macs? Do you have old back-ups of your user profile at a point when it was working well? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 9:47 Le 02/06/12 16:52, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : Hi, I just noticed that EVERY extension that I had installed were not carried over to 3.5.4, even though during the install process the status wording looked like it was going to. So, it that an error for 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 or was that a part of the 3.3.x to 3.4.x upgrading as well? I have seen this in many of the upgrade installations on Mac - each time I have to either delete my user profile or re-install the extensions, and I'm getting fed up with it. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
