Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base fread-only

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi :)
This guide might help with the User Profile and getting things "back to factory defaults"
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Fri, 20/7/12, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base fread-only
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 7:42

On 07/18/2012 09:22 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote:

Hi Larry,

> I purged OO and installed LO.  Still using Ubuntu 10.04.

Did you also purge (or otherwise rename) your OOo user configuration folder ?


> 
> If I open one of my databases in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 it works fine.  If
> I open the other, I can read it but I cannot add a new record nor can I
> edit an existing record.  It seems to somehow be marked as read-only.
> 
> I have been unable to find a way to make it read/write.  I got around
> the problem by exporting to a spreadsheet, creating a new database, and
> importing to that database.
> 

It might be, and this is only a guess, that LO has found bits of your OOo user configuration and that the XCU/XCS files in that are being misinterpreted. This has been known to lead to the symptoms you describe, including being able to read/write to one ODB file and only read the other ODB file.

So, if you have done it already, I would suggest :
- shutting down LO if it is running;
- removing both the old OOo user configuration folder and the LO user configuration - note that the user configuration location changed between LO 3.4 and LO 3.5, so it would be wise to check in both places ;
- restarting LO - the user configuration folder will be created anew.

I can't guarantee this will change anything, but it might.


Alex





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