On 2010-05-14 7:32 AM, Thomas Steel wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Tanstaafl" <tansta...@libertytrek.org> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:18 PM > To: <users@openoffice.org> > Subject: Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel > >> On 2010-05-14 4:13 AM, Thomas Steel wrote: >>> Dear Barbara: Thank you for yours. You seem to have missed my reply to >>> you on 10 May under 'Incomprehensible Error Message'. You had given me a >>> simple sequence, ending 'Click Repair'. I followed the sequence, but on >>> clicking Repair, got: >>> 'The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is >>> unavailable' & then 'Enter an alternate path to a folder containing the >>> installation package in the box below' & then 'The installation source >>> for this package is not available. Verify that the source exists and >>> that you can access it'. >>> None of that made any sense to me & I said: 'My cause seems hopeless (or >>> is there a way through that?). TS >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> I'm not Barbara, but she did in fact respond to this, with: >> >> "The last I know of, you'd gotten information about how to find or >> recreate your OOo installation files, and try a reinstall/repair on your >> Windows 7/OOo 32. system. Has that gotten you anywhere? Have you been >> able to create and later edit another spreadsheet?" >> >> The error message you received when you tried to 'Repair' the >> installation indicates that your original installation source files are >> gone, so you will need to re-download the Openoffice installation files, >> and when that error appears, navigate to the location of the recently >> downloaded/unzipped installation files, to allow the repair install to >> continue. >> >> Also, as you can now see, in the future, it is not a good idea to delete >> those files. > > By 're-download....the installation files', do you mean 're-install'? TS
No. You cannot 'reinstall' until you first remedy the problem of the missing installation files - unless you do still have the original installer .exe file. By 'redownload', I mean, go to http://download.openoffice.org/, redownload the installer for the version of openoffice you have installed (I thin it was 3.2, right?). In order to perform a repair install, you wuold then need to extract the installation files to some location where you can *keep* them (dbl-clicking on the downloaded installer file will first extract the files). But, actually, I do believe that if you just go ahead and run the installer as if your were installing it for the first time, it will detect the current installation and prompt you to repair it, so that might be easier for you... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
