Upgrading OOo

OOo 2.0 is nearly in beta, and pretty much usable. There are new builds coming out every week or so, and it has finally reached the condition of stability where you can simply copy over the whole user directory to a new installation and it will, just about, work straight off as it was working before. What I do now is to uninstall the old build form the control panel, install the new one, and then, before I run it for the first time, simple make a renamed copy of my user directory which contains all the macros, dictionaries, and customisations that I need to make it usable. This used reliably to crash the thing, back when they were changing the layout of the config files. Now it works fine, which means that it takes five minutes to upgrade, rather than half an hour.

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