On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, Richard Beeston wrote:
Thanks
I'm not sharp on Windows either but googling it seems you should find
the user profile thus:
make sure openoffice is not running.
a) click Start and type %appdata% in the search box;
b) go to /OpenOffice/4/user
c) rename user to something like 'user-old' so you can restore it or
its contents
restart openoffice.
if it doesn't work then stop openoffice and restore 'user-old' (or
whatever you called it) to 'user' and seek further help.
I found this at
<https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=58403>
my impression is this is surgery with a hammer because it removes all
your customizations. and I wish there were a more fine-tuned approach.
if you saved 'user-old' you can go in and try to restore individual
customizations like templates and stuff.
please no matter what, be sure you have backups of important stuff
like your thesis!!!
(and by 'backups' I mean several and not only on the one computer and
ideally a recent copy in some other physical location. please.)
F.
-----Original Message----- From: Rory O'Farrell
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 9:44 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: URGENT - Re: spellcheck error again after installing new update
Re: spellcheck
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:51:28 +1000
"Richard Beeston" <ar2l...@bigpond.com> wrote:
Hi Rory
This was not a "fast" shutdown. There was a small window came on the bottom
left of a screen I was working os which indicated that it was from Open
Office which said there was an update for the dictionary to get English
English updates. I did not screen dump this so I cannot show you what it
is.
I downloaded this as in my thesis I need the "correct" spelling for the
words in Australia not the US spelling. I turned off in the normal way
which
I have been using for many years and then the next day I found my
dictionary
had disappeared. This was annoying at the time and was wondering what to do
when Chris's email came into my inbox.
Going onto where to find some of the files. Where is the file explorer
found. I have typed this into the Search file area and nothing comes up
except references to the emails that I have kept. so if you could guide as
to where to find this I can then go on from there as per your previous
email.
I am using Windows 7 and OO 4.1.2
Thanks
Richard
I am very stale on Windows having moved to Linux some eight or so years ago
and am unfamiliar with the more modern windows - anything after XP I have
only touched to rescue one or two local computers in crisis. The File
Explorer (a name I have been given and seen by more informed users) is not
the Search file area, but the mechanism by which one can navigate from one
directory or disk to another.
--
Felmon Davis
"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
-- Mark Twain
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