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<td><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - clean up remains from old versions"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127247">127247</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>clean up remains from old versions
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>6.3.0.4 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>steffan.steffner@gmx.net
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<pre>Description:
I‘d like to refer to <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - FILESAVE"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=126810">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126810</a>
actually, data stemming from old obviously caused the problem described at bug
126810
(problems are not occuring anymore after deleting folders/files stemming from
old versions of LibreOffice / stemming from LibreOffice 5) as descibed in bug
126810 under <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=127247#c10">comment 10</a>.
Plus, there are even more issues that are resolved by deleting old folders
/files.
Actally, when using the function „Datei→ Öffnen“ (or file → Open), a deprecated
interface was displayed in my LibreOffice Version 6.2. (see image in
attachment) before I resorted to deleting the old files.
I resolved this issue by
- deinstalling the current version of LibreOffice
- deleting all old folders /files stemming from old(er) versions;
- reinstalling new version
I deleted the following folders (together with all files in them):
C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 5
C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 5
C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice
So I would suggest:
A new version should always perform the following clean-up when installing:
- delete all old folders /files stemming from former versions
- before deleting: extract all required user settings from the old files (I
can think of: copy paths for „Arbeitsverzeichnis“, „Sicherungskopien“, copy
„Druckformatvorlagen“ etc.) and „paste“ these settings into the new files
/setting of LibreOffice.
Steps to Reproduce:
Please see desciption -
only happens when the curent install of LibreOffice is istalled over an
existing install of LibreOffice (I can speak here for installs of Version 6
over installs of Version 5.
Actual Results:
Settings /user interfaces from older versions persist in newer versions.
Expected Results:
The new version should overwrite everything stemming from old versions.
Only specified user settings (paths for „Arbeitsverzeichnis“,
„Sicherungskopien“, copy „Druckformatvorlagen“ etc.) should be integrated into
new version.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
A new version should always perform the following clean-up when installing:
- delete all old folders /files stemming from former versions
(but extract the settings as desciped here unter "expected results", an
integrate these in the new version).
(by the way, I am just reading (in this very form ....) about "Did you try
resetting the your user profile?"; probably this would have resolved my issue
as well; but I would say that this option will not be found by 95% of people
affected with correspond problems; as of now, I have no idea how to perform
"reset your user profile" in LibreOffice (exept the solution I used, that is to
manually delete the old folders)</pre>
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