Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

I was running, for some time, both OO and LO on my Win7-64 laptop, with no problems. 
I had LO set as the default to open document, spreadsheet, and database files. OO was 
still set for "txt" files. And this all worked as it should. But since I was very 
seldom using OO, and it really wasn't necessary for OO to open "txt" files, I 
uninstalled OO from my computer completely. This was done "just in case" there is 
anything to what it said on the website about conflicts, when I downloaded and 
installed LO 3.3.3 final. But there really should be no reason for "conflicts" once 
you set whichever program you want to open which type files.
And this should be taken care of when the programs are installed. If you want to 
change that some where down the road, just use the "open with default program"/ file 
association applet in Windows to change it. Or if you just want to use the 
"other"/non-default program from time to time, use the right click menu and "open 
with".
I had a side by side installation since the original release of LO, up until about 5 
days ago, and had no problems whatsoever.
Roxy



Jack wrote:
> I believe there may be some slight issues due to the fact that both
> LibO and OOo have the same process name (soffice.exe).
Ah-hah! Now we're getting somewhere. It's not about the file types, it's
about the "process name". This is potentially a serious issue if it prevents
users from having both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org be usable on their
system.

So, what is the solution? Change the name(s) of LibO's executable(s)?


You could download LibreOfficePortable
> (portableapps.com/libreofficeportable).  It doesn't involve any
> registry entries as it is made to run from a flash-disk (all the
> "settings" are contained in sub folders rather than the registry).
> Version 3.3.2 is available.
Thank you, a reasonable suggestion (but see the bug referenced upthread,
about conflict between LibO Portable and OOo.)


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