StarOffice / Oracle Open Office

Are current SO9 users eligible for Oracle Open Office and it's incremental upgrades or will it be necessary to purchase it?

Saturday, July 10, 2010
Hi Gerhard!
Ok, extensions which are installed for users are installed in the users profile which is found at
c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Support\OracleOpenOffice\3\
Other extensions are actually installed in the same folder as the program which is
c:\Program Files\Oracle\Oracle Open Office 3\
To debug your system, try renaming with OOO closed (including the quickstarter)
c:\Documents and Settings\User Application Support\OracleOpenOffice\3\
to
c:\Documents and Settings\User Application Support\OracleOpenOffice\3bad\
The start OOO again. If loads and runs without problem, the the problem is in the profile. If the problem still exists, then you need to remove and reinstall OOO. Make sure you rename or delete the old installation because your problem is on the program folder. During the reinstall do not select migrate the SO9 info.
If OOO runs then you can try using the SO9 profile. bootstrap.ini is found in
c:\Program Files\Oracle\Oracle Open Office 3\program
With OOO closed, open it in notepad or another text editor and change
UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/OracleOpenOffice/3
to
UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/StarOffice/9
Then try OOO. If it runs without hitch, then things are great. If the problem reoccurs, then try running SO and remove the extension.
Phil
Edited by: PGAGA on 10-Jul-2010 4:33 PM

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