Open Office help

[Joe]

Hi.  I tried your suggestion by renaming ~/.openoffice to 
.save.openoffice .  Performance is either the same or a little worse.  
The only difference I noticed is that all my custom document templates 
were unavailable (I still have them, so I can put them back).  All my 
other settings remained in effect - like changes to the toolbars, etc.  
They seem to be stored in ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 .

So, something else is going on.  Any other ideas?
I'm going to see if installing OOo 1.1.1 makes any difference, but the 
release notes don't say too much about anything like this.

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:

> I used to have that problem with the old Open Office and if you 
> upgrade or installed a new one, it probably is still using your 
> ~/.openoffice folder for settings. You can just whack that folder 
> (NOTE: All your settings are in there!) and you should see a 
> considerable difference in startup and operation time. I believe the 
> older version had an issue with caching and this folder.
>
> Joe wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I'm running OOo 1.1.0 on Mandrake 9.1 rc2.  When I start OOo 
>> writer, it puts up a splash screen that stays on top of everything 
>> until it loads which takes about 11 minutes.  Then when I open a file 
>> (even less than one page long) it takes another 6 minutes and 
>> printing takes at least that long.  That's the old story.  I was 
>> resigned to it because I thought my old processor was just too slow 
>> to deal with it - PII 266 MHz, 128MB ram, 30 GB main HD.
>>
>> BUT, I just got a Knoppix 3.3 CD to play with.  Once I got it booted 
>> and figured out how to mount my home dir, I was able to load OOo 1.1 
>> writer in about 3 minutes (with no splash screen!), load a 4 page 
>> file in less than 1 minute and print in less than one minute - just 
>> like downtown!
>>
>> So, what the heck is going on in the OOo under Mandrake?
>>
>> The only clue I have seen is something about making a font cache read 
>> only, but I tried to do that and either I got it wrong or it had no 
>> effect.
>> I have used fontdrake to get all my windoze fonts and I do use Times 
>> New Roman a lot (from Windoze).
>>
>> Any ideas about why it's so slow and how to fix it and how to get rid 
>> of that maddening splash screen that blots out everything for 11 
>> minutes?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Joe.
>>
>> P.S.  I just got the OOo 1.1.1 CD but have not installed it yet.  I 
>> don't know if that will make any difference, but the knoppix and MDK 
>> OOo's both report 1.1, so I think they're at the same version.
>>
>

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