Thanks for the new OO.o 3.0 offering. It's nice for PA to be in sync with the latest version. (I don't write this as a criticism; usually PA is so quick to get new versions out the door that I use it as my "alarm" to update software on my regular computers! I don't know how you do it.)
I'm getting two error messages when trying to launch OpenOffice.org 3.0:
1) "Error loading BASIC of document
file:///H:PortableApps/OpenOfficePortable/App/openoffice/Basis/share/basic/
Launcher/script.xlb/:
[I had to split that line because it wouldn't display completely on the forum preview function]
General Error,
General input/output error."
2) The second is nearly identical, but the long first line ends in "dialog.xlb/:".
After that, OO.o Writer seems to launch and save files normally.
FWIW, I'm running this from a half-empty 8 GB USB drive on a Windows Vista Home Premium laptop. If you need other information, I'll be happy to provide it.
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From some quick searching, it seems this may be a configuration issue. Was this a new install or an upgrade? Have you tried resetting your settings (just delete the OpenOfficePortable\Data folder to reset them)?
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... cause the Launcher script from version 2.x no longer exists.
Delete the user profile or (if You need it) delete the lines
in
Data/settings/user/basic/script.xlc
and the corresponding entry in dialog.xlc.
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Is this going to affect all upgrades?
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... but there was one with an user profile used for 2.4.1 than 3 Beta2, 2.4.1 again and than 3 final.
Could be a result of the changes in the directory structure between 3 Beta1 and the final.
I'll check this on friday with a clean install of 2.4.1.
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Yes, it was an upgrade from 2.4.x. And, yes, deleting the folder you mentioned fixed the issue. It didn't take too long to recreate the basic user data & settings that I needed. Thanks for the quick help on this.
I saw the same issue when playing with the OpenOffice 3 Portable pre-releases, and I found that similar errors have been reported during upgrades, even from before OO 2.0, for the non-portable version.
It seems to be related to mismatches of files that don't get correctly replaced during updates; one user seemed to think it was somewhere in the macros, another thought it was in the extensions.
I solved my problem by just deleting my OO Portable folder completely and doing a clean install.
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I followed John's comment here and deleted the data folder. Worked a treat for me. All running fine now. Thanks for the help!