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Hi,

Is there a way to change the path of "My documents" in the dialog "Paths used by Openoffice"?

We all use Openoffice 2.3.1. on win 2000/2003/xp

In the AD of our win2003 server all users will be assigned their own "my documents" folder on that same server.
We map that folder to the drive letter H:\

however Openoffice uses the UNC path instead of the drive letter H:\.
I read in issue 51026 Openoffice does not work well with UNC paths (as we noticed our selfs )

So....I tried the double click on the path to change this to H:\ but I can change all paths except the my documents...
Is there a file where I can change this? or somewhere in the registry (that i missed).

example
we now see
\\dc1_server\Bgates$\my documents
or
\\dc1_server\Ltorvald$\my documents

and I would like to change this for all users to
H:\

Thanks

Bit3m3

I was able to edit the path by clicking on the Edit button, but it apparently has no effect. The Open dialogue still points to My Documents. Changing the Start In properties of the Shortcut had no effect either.

So I don't know what the Document Path refers to.

I get the exactly same result like Bhikkhu Pesala with OOo 2.3.1 on Win XP Pro.
Also, I can successfully change to the path U:\, although this is a network drive.

KR, phil

in both 2.4.0 local and 2.3.1 portable, Save and Open dialogs point to the path of the last location I accessed for that function, which are not the same paths as the ones I set in My Documents.

bit3m3 wrote:Hi,

Is there a way to change the path of "My documents" in the dialog "Paths used by Openoffice"?

We all use Openoffice 2.3.1. on win 2000/2003/xp

Yes maybe.

OpenOffice can't play with that "shell folder" (AFAIK), but you can.

In XP and I think others.

But it will be changed for all applications looking for "My Documents," not just OO. You'll see how to do it for a stand-alone computer with a little right click dance.

But look on microsoft.com for lan/network aspects for mapping to your users profiles or whatever and it if matters that you are in a mixed hardware enviro.:

Search for moving my documents folder

or

change the default location of the My Documents Folder

or small pieces of those.