RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with paths

You may be running up against a permissions problem on Windows XP.  Are you running from an 
administrator account (something too many distros assume)?  If that's not it, it may be very 
difficult to troubleshoot.

For example, the portable build may be attempting to store the settings somewhere that is read-only 
or denied-access and not reporting (or not even checking) that the write is failing.

You may also be running into a Windows trick that diverts the write to a different "shadow" place,  
so the application succeeds, but the restarted app can't find them.  (I can't remember if that was 
new with Vista or it made an appearance in one of the XP Service Packs.)

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: planas [mailto:jslozier@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 20:14
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with paths

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 13:49 +0000, Herbert Fromme wrote:

> > > On 13/04/2011 12:01, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> > > > Hello, everyone. I'm using the portable build of LibreOffice from
> > > > portableapps.com on a WinXP system.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to change the documents directory that LibreOffice uses. I
> > > > go to Options, Paths and change the documents path. I click OK. I
> > > > close LO, reopen it, and the change to the path is lost. I can't find
> > > > any way to get the change to the path to stick. Is this a known bug?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
>
> I have exactly the same problem, changes to paths don't stick. After closing and
> reopening Libre Office, the changes have been lost.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> HF


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