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

Not Business ready then?

On 2012-06-04 02:12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> 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 thin someone said that the 3.5.x like uses a different folder 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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