Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice user Question

Thanks to everyone! This appears to be a great group. I can now proceed to accomplish something. 
Thanks again!
Dave

> On Nov 12, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le 12/11/2014 15:22, Dave Asaibene a écrit :
>
> Hi Dave,
>
>
> > I have a Mac Mini running OS 10.4.11 and a Macbook Air with 10.10. I want to donate the Mac Mini 
> > to a community center, however I also want to set up a database for their use and be able to 
> > transfer files or work and modify the data base on these two machines as required. 
>
> Any of the 3.x versions of LibreOffice should still run on OSX 10.4.
>
>
> > My questions are:
> > The Mac Mini cannot run LibreOffice because the LibreOffice needs at least MacOS 10.8. However I 
> > have NeoOffice 3.1.2 installed on the Mac Mini. Is there a place I can get an older copy of 
> > LibreOffice?
> > Will I encounter problems creating a database with LibreOffice on my Macbook Air and then 
> > sending it to the Mac Mini? Or the other way around? (Create on the Mini under NeoOffice and 
> > send to LibreOffice on my Macbook Air?)
>
> You should be alright with an embedded hsqldb version of and ODB created
> on one and then copied over and opened on the other (or put on a USB
> stick), as the version of hsqldb that is embedded hasn't changed since
> the LibreOffice project started.
>
> You would even be alright with a server-based backend engine instead of
> the default embedded hsqldb, providing that both you and the association
> can access it.
>
> However, be aware that the date/time structure API changed in version
> 4.1.x  of LO Base, and that could be problematic for you if you
> implement date/time structures in your database.
>
> Additionally, there are various bugs that affect different versions of
> LibreOffice ongoing from the first release to the actual current
> release, and these are not necessarily the same, or do not manifest
> themselves in the same way, according to the version of LO you might be
> trying to use.
>
> So not impossible (far from it), but you will have to work with the
> quirks that have affected all users of Base to varying degrees since the
> project began.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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