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Unstable flash drive (was: Unstable Open Office 2.21)

Submitted by maddogouu on November 7, 2007 - 4:04am

I have tried to run Open Office 2.21 with four different XP Prof based laptop and in two desktop system (XP Pro and Vista). I think Portable Open Office is still quite unstable and can't be used for serious work. In my system Portable Open Office is installed to default directory to new fast Cosair Voyager GT 8GB USB stix. The most frustrating experience was a lost spreadsheet after a couple hours of work when PC freezed when I was saving the work.

openoffice and spyware doctor

Submitted by jlourenco on October 2, 2007 - 7:39am

hi.

when i try to start one apllication from this software, writer or calc or whatever, my antispyware give me the following information:

Malicious Action Blocked

Spyware Doctor has blocked an application soffice.BIN attempting to access a file.

path: M:\PORTABLEAPPS\OPPENOFFICEPORTABLE\APP\OPENOFFICE\PROGRAM\SAX.UNO.DLL

Risk: Adware.Agent.BN
danger: High

So what's the problem here ?

regards

Download & Install a NON PORTABLE Language Pack

Submitted by geepow on September 24, 2007 - 7:55am

I tryed this, and all works good: Menu, Help file, and "Thesaurus" also are translated.

1) Download your language pack paying attention to select right version: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/OpenOffice/extended/
(Untill now (Sept. 24, 2007) you should download 2.2.1rc2 version in order to be compatible with the current downloadable version of OpenOffice portable (2.2.1.): http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/OpenOffice/extended/2.2.1rc2/

Java uses system path not CommonFiles\Java

Submitted by adbennet on September 17, 2007 - 12:34am

Is portable Java supported yet? I followed the installation instructions and Java seems to be "working" but only from C:\Program Files\Java. The javasettings_Windows_x86.xml is created but OpenOfficePortable.exe doesn't seem to care about its contents. This situation is not truly portable if I use the USB drive on a computer with an older Java installed. Of course I can switch to \CommonFiles\Java but must I repeat this every time I start OpenOffice?

OpenOffice will not start - "Service Manager Not Available"

Submitted by dclong on September 10, 2007 - 6:34pm

Downloaded and installed the standard PortableApps Suite (and -- to ALL you developers: THANK YOU!) on a freshly formatted (therefore, blank) SanDisk Cruzer.

Anyway, got a bunch of error messages upon installation about the install app not being able to create certain output files.

Safely removed the USB key and reinserted it. Besides the OpenOffice apps, all the other once seem to be working okay.

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