Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing 2 versions of LO on Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite

On 01/22/2015 11:04 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 06:15 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > Le 21/01/2015 16:54, Stephan Bergmann a écrit :
> > > Are you really sure that it ever worked that if you rename
> > > LibreOffice.app to Foo.app it will then locate its user profile under
> > > ~/Library/Application Data/Foo/ instead of ~/Library/Application
> > > Data/LibreOffice/?  That would surprise me.
> >
> > No, you had to rename the user profile /Library/Application Support/Foo
> > accordingly before restarting LO - this was the advice we were giving
> > out to users on our wiki.
>
> We are talking past each other here.  What I meant is whether a
> LibreOffice.app renamed to Foo.app would have "expected" the user
> profile at ~/Library/Application Data/Foo/, i.e., would have picked up
> the data at ~/Library/Application Data/Foo/ if you had also renamed
> ~/Library/Application Data/LibreOffice/ to ~/Library/Application
> Data/Foo/ before starting the renamed Foo.app, or else would have
> created and used a fresh ~/Library/Application Data/Foo/ if you did not
> rename ~/Library/Application Data/LibreOffice/.

...and 
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/OS_X#Old_Method> 
indeed claims that did work long ago:  "Up to and including the 3.3.x 
series, the way to separate configurations on the Mac simply involved 
renaming your existing installation user configuration folder to the 
same name as the name of the LibreOffice application."  Interesting; 
that completely slips my memory.

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