On Sun, 24 May 2015 17:10:12 -0400 elderdanlewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone renamed the user profile, restarted AOO,and then compared the > renamed profile with the newly created one? (There should be a difference, > but it would be rather time consuming to find any. There is the possibility > of more than one difference. ) > > Dan The culprit is often in the registrymodifications.xcu file; however, this file keeps a running history of OpenOffice use and configuration, so no two copies of it are sufficiently similar to isolate the significant difference with any ease. As such corruptions rarely seem to happen to developers and advanced users they have no incentive to waste their time sorting out such a problem. > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > Date:05/24/2015 3:40 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Spell check > > Martin Groenescheij wrote: > >> On 23 May 2015, at 5:36 pm, toki wrote: > >> The major reason for not fixing it, is that it is _not_ a reproducable > >> bug. There is no sequence of steps I can take, that produces the bug. > > Exactly. We had a variant of the bug that occurred upon installation and > profile migration from version 3.x; that one was fixed. These, much more > limited from the numbers we see, other occurrences are even harder to > track and diagnose. > > > add an option to reset the user profile from a toolbar. > > That has been the favorite option so far, together with an option for > resetting the profile when one (un)installs the program. You will find > the full discussions on the dev list, but technically the complexity is > that you can't delete the profile from a running OpenOffice (so this > would have to be scheduled for the next restart and coding it becomes > more complex) and that you (un)install the program system-wide, but your > profile is a per-user setting. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
