Re: old registrymodifications.xcu is overwritten by LO3.6dev

[putting libreoffice@ back on cc, assuming you dropped it inadvertently]

On 04/02/2012 11:23 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Stephan Bergmann schrieb:
> > On 04/02/2012 10:41 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > > Stephan Bergmann schrieb:
> > > > On 03/31/2012 02:10 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > > > > Is it intended that the old registrymodifications.xcu is overwritten?
> > > >
> > > > registrymodifications.xcu typically gets re-written with every run
> > > > of LO
> > > > (even usually being re-written multiple times during a single run). It
> > > > changes whenever data that is stored in the configuration changes -- be
> > > > that "Tools - Options" entries explicitly modified by the user, window
> > > > positions/sizes implicitly modified by dragging things around, or ...
> > >
> > > It is about the fact, that all existing entries are lost. I had a 947KB
> > > file and after installation of LO3.6 it is 36KB. Even die fields "User
> > > Data" are empty.
> >
> > On Windows?
>
> Yes, on WinXP.
>
> There was an issue with LO migrating existing user data onto
> > itself (in which case it would drop most existing content of
> > registrymodifications.xcu), but that should be fixed on master for a
> > month now, see
> > <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=76e0d695a41326a5583dbc9702e0ce3b8219b514>
> >
> > "Move migrateSettingsIfNecessary into create_user_install" and
> > <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-February/027058.html>
> >
> > "User installation migrated onto itself."
>
> I have pulled the source on Friday, so that's included. Is it possible,
> that it fails because the old one was a normal build and the new one is
> a debug build?

So you have a "LO3.5dev" and a master build sharing a user installation 
(what are the respective UserInstallation values in the two 
bootstrap.ini?).  Debug vs. non-debug should not matter.  Would be 
interesting to know what branch your master build takes in 
UserInstall::finalize (desktop/source/app/userinstall.cxx), what 
UserInstallStatus it returns, and whether it indeed goes into the 
conditional

  if (inst_fin == UserInstall::Created)
  {
    Migration::migrateSettingsIfNecessary();
  }

in Desktop::Main (desktop/source/app/app.cxx).

Stephan