Issue 18387 - OpenOffice doesn't know about changing MyDocuments location in Windows.
Summary: OpenOffice doesn't know about changing MyDocuments location in Windows.
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Frank Schönheit
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Keywords: oooqa
: 18386 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2003-08-19 11:01 UTC by nader
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description nader 2003-08-19 11:01:45 UTC 
I don't know if this is the right place to put the issue. But it looks like 
it's the most appropriate.

 When I change MyDocuments location in Windows, the OpenOffice starter tries to 
open the old MyDocuments location - and can't find it.
It seems like OpenOffice tries to locate the directory that was registerd 
during install time; and can't find it.

Suggestion: MyDocuments location should be located from the registry.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2003-08-19 11:15:20 UTC 
Hi Thorsten,
please have a look. Can we handle such a case?
Comment 2 thorsten.martens 2003-08-20 10:36:05 UTC 
TM->FS: As talked via phone, please have a look, thanks !
Comment 3 Olaf Felka 2003-08-20 11:43:59 UTC 
*** Issue 18386 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 Joost Andrae 2004-02-25 18:35:43 UTC 
JA: AFAIK the only way to change the location is to change it in
/tools/options/OpenOffice.org/paths. AFAIK the setup program reads the registry
entry for the MyDocuments path and then takes it as a configuration parameter.
Comment 5 nader 2004-02-27 17:02:35 UTC 
It's good to know where I can change the path of MyDocuments whenever this 
happens again. But I think that it would be difficult for a non-expert user to 
do this. Why not to make OO act whenever it actually doesn't find the directory 
that it was configured to? Something like re-reading from the Registry and 
putting the right string again in the .../paths files.
It is true that it doesn't happen a lot. But things like this strengthen the 
product.

Thanks for your effort guys. You are making a wonderful job!
Comment 6 flibby05 2004-04-25 19:29:58 UTC 
defect -> enhancement
Comment 7 Edwin Sharp 2014-03-06 12:08:49 UTC 
Tools - Options... - OpenOffice - Paths