Upgrade to ver. 2.0.3

azgeezer · Newbie Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

Hello:
I am currently running ver 2.0.2. Is it recommended to upgrade to 2.0.3, and if so, should I uninstall 2.0.2 before installing new upgrade version 2.0.3
Thanks !!!
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JohnV · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject:

My practice is to just install, let the installer detect the old version and install over it. Some others always remove the old version first but I've never had a problem doing my way.

Corfy · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject:

I had a couple of problems installing over the 2.0 beta versions, but I haven't had any problems installing over the officially released versions. I say, go ahead and install it.
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Kaaredyret · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

It is good to know that you can safely upgrade; I, however, always uninstalled the previous version first. Your personal settings are kept, 100% as far as I can see, so I just wanted to play safe.

I am right; all personal settings are not deleted when you uninstall?

(Windows XP)
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robina · OOo Advocate Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 275

I always uninstall before installing the new version. In the case of OOo, I also clean the Registry before installing the new version, because OOo seems to generate a large number of Registry entries.

After I uninstalled 2.0.2, I checked the Registry for "OpenOffice" entries with Registry First Aid, and it found 963 (!) entries, which I deleted. The Registry size decreased by 3% after I compressed it with NTREGOPT.

KRL · General User Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 25

I just upgraded from 2.02 to 2.03 on Windows XP. The install went perfectly smooth and it removed the old files and installed the new ones fine.

I also recommend turning off your Virus progs and SpySweeper etc. during installs.

Upgrade went fine. Only thing I've noticed is when you right click on the lower bottom right Open Office App Quickstarter icon the avatars are there to launch each program, but the text that used to be next to each icon is blank. Must be a little bug in the upgrade.

And when I did the registration the text was blank on the Next key. I knew it was the next key so you could still click it ok.

Other than that all is fine.
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Untel · Power User Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

Upgrade from 2.0.3 over 2.0.2 went mostly fine. For me the text did appear next to icons in the Quickstater.

Mostly... In previous upgrades, I found that my language preferences (spellcheckers) were stupidly discarded altogether, replaced by the default install languages, including swahili (for mind-boggling unknown reasons). This time I took care to save my /share/dict/ooo/ folder because I suspected this weird behavior would return... and it did.

Well, I was glad I had saved my prefs... So I overwrote the dict/ooo folder with my backup, including the dictionary.lst file that contains the list of languages I use. But it didn't work: the same default install languages appeared.

Fortunately, I had also saved the OO folder in "Documents and Settings": so I overwrote that also, and at last I recovered my languages preferences. I just hope this didn't overwrite any important file for the 2.0.3 version that will come haunt me in unsuspect ways later...

So do not assume all your preferences will be saved in upgrading, the install process can't be trusted that much.

Now:
What precise files to backup to keep languages preferences?
Why are some preferences kept and other mindlessly discarded by the install?
Why should swahili be important to me?
... and other such questions that come to mind.

/edit: ok, found it. Another file to backup is:
\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Linguistic.xcu
Geez louise...!

KRL · General User Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 25

After my post above, I found more dialog box text and icons missing.

I'd recommend uninstalling 2.02 first, and delete the c: program file folder and the oo folder in your c: documents and settings/ app data/ .

When I reinstalled 2.03 clean all the text and icons were appearing properly. This was on the Windows XP version.
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Untel · Power User Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

ouch!
Windows2000 here.
Can you be specific on which dialogs/icons that disappear?

KRL · General User Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 25

Zheliu · Newbie Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

Should I download full 2.0.3 version or there is a small upgrade pack (several megabytes) from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 to download for Windows XP? Question

Untel · Power User Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

@KRL: Anoying bug surely, esp. if it's generalized to all WinXP users.

@Zheliu: They mention a standalone patch available soon, but maybe that's only for the security holes fixes. I would hope they'd create upgrade patches too (watch the fanboys come defend OOo's ways though!).

9point9 · Moderator Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 3875 Location: UK

Incremental updates will be available soon and will be used in future.

Corfy · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:13 am Post subject:

Untel · Power User Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

"Incremental updates will be available soon and will be used in future."
That's very good news. Thanks for the confirmation.

"Not all [WinXP] users."
Glad to hear its not generalized.
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I just noticed this bug isn't fixed after all... guess I'll have to ask them to reopen the issue.
/edit: oh, just noticed I could reopen it... cool.