Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18305
User settings lost in upgrade from 1.1rc1 to 1.1rc3
Last modified: 2003-09-16 11:29:15 UTC
I currently had installed 1.1rc. I ran "setup /net" and there was an option to upgrade into the same directory. Good! Then I ran the "setup" as user. I was informed that as the network installation had been updated, I had to do an update. No problem with that, and all went smoothly. However, I discovered that not all settings were preserved. For example: Macros in Writer have gone. Autotext entries in Writer have gone. Some Tools|Options not retained. E.g., Autosave settings. Tools|Spellcheck|AutoSpellcheck was no longer ticked. The Australian dictionary I had installed is not shown as installed. Language settings are back to USA, rather than Australia. (The Australian dictionary itself is still in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1\share\dict\ooo, but dictionary.lst has been overwritten.) Tools|Autocorrect|English(Australia) was retained. I was hoping that as it did an "official" upgrade that such settings would not be lost.
*** Issue 18229 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Also noticed that Tools|Options|Text Document|Print|Fax was set to <none> and no longer set to what it was previously.
I can confirm for updating RC1 to RC3. It's much better when updating RC2 to RC3. All settings but user data are updated. I think that this is similar to 17676. To fix this problem is to risky.
I'm asking for clarification: does this mean that an upgrade from rc3 to the next rc (or even jumping to an even later rc) *will* keep existing macros, AutoText and other settings? And I don't understand what is meant by "To fix this problem is to [o] risky".
Update from RC3 to RC4 or final will not be possible as default. It's only possible to update OOo 1.1 with 1.1.0. Your personal hack for OOo RC4 ot later might be to edit the setup.inf file: The line: UpdateFor = "%PRODUCTNAME 1.0.3;%PRODUCTNAME 1.0.2;%PRODUCTNAME 1.0.1;%PRODUCTNAME 1.0;%PRODUCTNAME 1.1"; should be enhaced with ;%PRODUCTNAME 1.1.0: UpdateFor = "%PRODUCTNAME 1.0.3;%PRODUCTNAME 1.0.2;%PRODUCTNAME 1.0.1;%PRODUCTNAME 1.0;%PRODUCTNAME 1.1;%PRODUCTNAME 1.1.0"; This should work, but no garanties, this is just your personal workaround. 'To risky to fix' means that more settings might break than get repaired.