Open Office help

[Joe]

Wow!  I don't know if OOo 1.1.1 or oooqs did it, but with both installed 
it's acting like a computer again!  Things load and print  in a few 
seconds instead of ten minutes.

Thanks.

Joe

jb wrote:

>There os an Open Office quick starter you can download which may help. It is 
>called "oooqs" open office quick starter which I downloaded as an rpm thru 
>apt-get. I think it preloads open oraface...
>JB
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>On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:57 am, Joe wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>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:
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>>>>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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