Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :)
It is great to hear that the portable apps uses a fairly normal folder.  I had assumed they hid  
them in some horribly compressed file on an almost unreachable path.  So, this means that a 
LibreOffice installed on a hard-drive could be made to point at the same config folder on the 
usb-stick.  

So, it's only the extensions stored in those folders that might not work on the different 
platforms. I thought extensions were in the same format on all platforms but apparently not.  

LibreOffice has such a tiny and insignificant share of the market that MS has not even started to 
try fighting against it.  They will once LO starts to threaten their bottom-line but we are a long 
way off from that.  Although there are a few things that cause us problems they really haven't even 
flexed yet.  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 8/9/11, JEBwebs@gmail.com <jebwebs@gmail.com> wrote:

From: JEBwebs@gmail.com <jebwebs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 16:20

It has never ceased to amaze me how a select few individuals in key positions in corporations are 
permitted to form a self-sustaining interlocked stance on the use of MS Office suite due to their 
inability to accept they are able learn other ways of conducting business.

MS Office has been constructed to permeate the worlds major corporations because, among other 
things, it offers this group an easy transition from one company to another.  I suspect their main 
selling point in interviews is that, 'yes' they know how to use Outlook to send email and use its 
calendar to keep track of which meeting they are supposed to be in next.

When consulting on available options they always balk at implementation of more cost effective 
(read: FREE) platforms and when doing so whine, 'well the other guys all use it'.  Of course as 
they actually voice it in terms like, 'all our business associates use it therefore we must as 
well'.  Self-supporting hogwash.  Personally, I stepped away from Office because, when testing 
Thunderbird ten years ago, found emails deleted in Outlook, were never actually removed from the 
PST file.  They were simply hidden from the User.

I suspect those at the executive level, like so many others, are simply reluctant to try a new 
platform out of fear they won't be able to understand how to use it.  Mentality akin to what makes 
children check under the bed for monsters.  Fear.

As for Microsoft, if they lost the strangle hold they have gained through the Office Suite of 
applications. They very well may tumble from the lofty heights and actually have to produce a 
competitive product. They don't have to do so with their operating systems because of the back room 
deals made with PC makers by which they enforce their own rule of, 'a PC has to come with an 
Operating System'.

So my reply is tethered properly to this threads topic: Yes, Libre Office can be installed on an 
External Drive.  The folks at PortableApps.com have two 'LibreOffice Portable' packages available.  
One for English only (120mb DL, 260-413mb installed) and one for all languages (145mb DL, 516-776mb 
installed). Whose features are described in part as:
> LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, 
> Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing 
> nearly all of the functions you'd expect in an office suite, but at no cost.

They also offer support on how to copy your local LO settings to LO Portable.  It requires Users 
find and copy: /C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\LibreOffice\/  to the 
LibreOfficePortable\Data\settings\ directory.  So the difficulty level requires one find the 
\LO\data folder on the external drive and perform a copy function.

On 9/8/2011 1:55 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: At0mic [mailto:atomicbutterfly83@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 3:57 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an
> external drive. ?
>
> > I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives
> to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a
> mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and>a few
> other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a
> very high level of integration. The problem is that this integration is very
> important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an ad hoc
> > bundling of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well
> integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't
> give the same level of functionality.
>
> > Outlook is what it is not just for the email side of things.
> This is precisely why outlook is the only MS application I have installed on
> my work machines. Apart from development environments, VS 2003,2005,2008&
> 2010 and what comes bundled with windows stupid .... I mean windows 7. Most
> of which I don't use anyway.
> With the entire company using an MS exchange server and sharing calendars
> and contacts I'm forced to use outlook. Let's face it, not everything
> microsoft do is bad. Just most things.
>
> The problems with Microsoft come when you have bulk licencing agreements and
> are forced to install their products to comply with their licences. Then
> management says "We're paying for the licence, we may as well use it." This
> makes change very difficult.
>
> Cheers,
>
> > From
> Bruce Carlson.
>
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