[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

teknow <teknowledgist@gmail.com> writes:

> My less OSS friendly colleagues decided it was LO's install process
> that was at fault and uninstalled it while arguing that it shouldn't
> be installed in the first place.  That just made it worse because
> then additional MS Office file types were "broken".  Running a
> repair-install of MS Office 2010 fixes the problem, but only for the
> currently logged in user - all existing users (and any future users
> if the default profile isn't re-generated) have .doc files that open
> in WordPad, and .xls files that have no association.

Been there, done that; was with OO.o; about 24 months back. Never caused
a problem though, because both Windows and MS Office are clean
re-installed every 2-3 months anyways.

This is what happened - a friend wanted to try an alternative to MS-o;
and I recommended OO.o. The machine however had very low RAM, and OO.o
was toooo slow. He finally uninstalled OO.o; and later complained that
file associations were too messed up, that he had to re-install MS-O. 


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Mahesh T. Pai   ||
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.


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