Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 90463
PATHS for user files missing from Tools|Options
Last modified: 2008-10-02 03:24:48 UTC
I just downloaded & installed OOo 3.0.0 Beta tonite (Jun 6 2008). While setting it up, I discovered that there is no place to set the default path to the user's files. In v2.4 under |Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths| there is a document type called "My Documents" where you can set the path. But that document type is missing from 3.0.0 Beta. Actually, I would like to be able to set separate default paths for each type of document (Writer, Calc, Impress, Base). As a heavy user of Microsoft Office for more than 10 years, I have so many of each type of files that I like to keep them segregated into their own directories under "My Documents". (I'm running Windows XP Home SP2 on a 'white-box' pc with an AMD Duron 950mhz processor & 1gb ram.) Thanks, Tim
Hi Tim, I don't have OOo3.0 Beta but a later milesone (m28, just before the 1st release candidate). The problem does not exist there, so it seems solved in the mean time. I thinks we have to check again in the next RC. Thanks - Cor
Thanks, Cor. I've now got OOo 3 beta2, and checked it. The "My Documents" document type is indeed back in beta2. Is there any chance of getting additional document types added, to allow separate default paths for Writer, Calc, Base, etc?
UDP of Issue 88176 @timdeaton Please file a new issue with enhancement request for your needs. Thank you for your attention! *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 88176 ***
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(Sorry for replying to a closed issue, BTW) Hi Tim, I know your suggestion. There must be an issue for it, somewhere. But I am not in favor, cause in normal business/work, documents are saved on subject, project, and not on kind of document. I do meet people that as for this - knowing it from the past. But after a little discussion, very few insist... But letme be careful: maybe you have good reasons to want it.
Cornouws, thank you for your response. Rather than continuing here, I've now done as rainerbielefeld suggested. I created a new Issue #94561 and responded to you there.