[Tutorial] User configurations
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:14 pm
Has anyone written a definitive guide to backing up / deleting / transferring the user configurations used by OpenOffice / StarOffice? (macros, toolbar buttons & positions, keyboard shortcuts, custom dictionary, options & customisations in general, etc.)
e.g. Is it
or
or is it, as it appears, a combination of the two? (Note, I'm not desperate to know the answer to this specific question, I'm just using it to illustrate how baffling I, and no doubt others, find it all).
Edit: added Villeroys suggestion
- Where exactly are they on the various supported platforms?
- What should be deleted to cause a rebuild with defaults? Or to backup all customisations?
- Can only certain bits be backed up or deleted?
- Can they be transferred to a new user login? or a new computer? or a different OS?
- Can they be shared between the two different installs for the same user on a dual-boot machine?
- Are there any "gotchas" when restoring a backup copy? Are partial restores possible?
- Are the above answers the same for all flavours of OpenOffice (OO.o, Novell, Star, etc.)? Or how do they differ? And different releases (2.2, 2.3.1, etc.)?
- Which settings are document specific, and not actually part of the user configuration at all?
e.g. Is it
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C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\StarOffice8\user\config
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C:\Program Files\Sun\StarOffice 8\share\config\soffice.cfg\modules
Edit: added Villeroys suggestion