Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions

Hi :)
The 3.5.x branch definitely does use a different folder for the users settings.  For soem reason i 
got confused and gave the old and the new paths for Macs but the Windows pathname change is 
similar.  For pre-Vista versions of Windows it used to be


C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\LibreOffice\3\user\



But with the 3.5.x has changed to

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\config\LibreOffice\3\user\



If the upgrade process is claiming that it copies the folders and then doesn't that is really bad.  
If it still deletes the old folder than it's appalling!  Losing data is one of the worst things 
that can happen in any system!  Time for you to post a bug-report if you can!
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

I still haven't tested the upgrade feature.  I uninstall the old one and then 'reinstall' the new 
and then remember i was meant to take a copy of the first UserProfile folder and cuss and then do 
the least amount possible to set-up the profile but inevitably forget 1 or a few users and cuss 
again.  Luckily it's only about a dozen machines now but i really need to be more organised so i 
can scale-up or at least do it more reliably and faster.    
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Sun, 3/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 15:12


Tom
as the OP of this thread, my real issue was while it was "upgrading" the status text indicated to 
me that is was going to transfer my user profile info and such.  It did not do the proper job if it 
decided to transfer only the user name and other such data, and not all of the extensions he/she 
relies on.

I think someone said that the 3.5.x branch uses a different folder/path for the user data.  If so, 
maybe there is an error in the copying of that info to the new folder before that old folder was 
erased.

I have not tried this 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 on a Ubuntu system, only a WinXP laptop.  There must be a fix 
to this issue.

Can you imagine what a business type of user has to go through to move 10, 50, 100 machines, using 
Windows, from 3.4.6 to a 3.5.x version if they have to reinstall ALL of their extensions, along 
with dealing with the custom install process to not have every single language dictionary possible 
during install automatically installed?


On 06/03/2012 05:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I thought it was possible to copy user-profiles between different machines?  Even between ones 
> running different OSes?  Is it not possible to copy&paste the Extensions folder from the old 
> folder position to the new one?  Something like the equivalent of
>
> cp
> /Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/3/user
> /Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/config/LibreOffice/3/user
>
>
> Errr, i know you know cp = copy on a Gnu&Linux command-line but i don't know the equivalent in 
> Mac.  I would probably do this the click&drag gui way tbh.  Can you do soemthing like this on 
> Macs?  Do you have old back-ups of your user profile at a point when it was working well? Regards 
> from
> Tom :) 
>
> --- On Sun, 3/6/12, Alexander Thurgood<alex.thurgood@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Alexander Thurgood<alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Sunday, 3 June, 2012, 9:47
>
> Le 02/06/12 16:52, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> > I just noticed that EVERY extension that I had installed were not
> > carried over to 3.5.4, even though during the install process the status
> > wording looked like it was going to.
> >
> > So, it that an error for 3.4.6 to 3.5.4 or was that a part of the 3.3.x
> > to 3.4.x upgrading as well?
> I have seen this in many of the "upgrade" installations on Mac - each
> time I have to either delete my user profile or re-install the
> extensions, and I'm getting fed up with it.
>
>
> Alex


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