I've installed OpenOffice and manually changed the default file locations to a documnent directory of my choice. For Example:
Calc doc will be saved to: C:\My Documents\Spreadsheets
Writer will be saved to: C:\My Documents\Word
You get the idea....
Then I save the changes, and exit OpenOffice. When I open OpenOffice again, the default setting are back, and my changes are gone.
How do I get them to stick?
Troy.
Switch to the current release of LibreOffice Portable. It's a newer version of OpenOffice.org and supports custom file locations.
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