[cw-discuss] Upgrade caches bad HOME dir

[Paul Waldo]

Hi Brian,

I was hoping that I wouldn't have do that.  The though of reinstalling Windows 
apps is not to appealing...  The docs don't specifically say, but I assume 
that everything in ~/.cxoffice is gone, even if I run cxuninstall...

Paul

On Friday 25 January 2008 10:11:35 am Brian C wrote:
> I have run into a similar issue.  You either need to review the
> documentation on the CX website on how to un-install CX before
> re-installing it, or you can manually rename or remove the folders listed
> below.  Doing this will remove your existing CX bottles so you will have to
> re-install your windows apps.  Hope that helps.
>
> /home/paul/cxoffice
> /home/paul/.cxoffice
> /home/paul/.loki
> /home/paul/.netscape
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 8:56 AM, Paul Waldo <paul at waldoware.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade to CXO 6.2.0.  The installer is having problems
> > creating
> > the CrossOver menu and gives messages like this:
> >
> > cxmenu:error: unable to create
> > the
> > '/home/pwaldo/.cxoffice/desktopdata/cxoffice-0/cxmenu/xdg-applications/Cr
> >ossOver' directory: mkdir /home/pwaldo: Permission denied
> > at /home/paul/cxoffice/lib/perl/CXUtils.pm line 453
> >
> > cxmenu:error: unable to
> > save
> > '/home/pwaldo/.cxoffice/desktopdata/cxoffice-0/cxmenu/xdg-applications/Cr
> >ossOver/.directory': No such file or directory
> > cxmenu:error: unable to create
> > the
> > '/home/pwaldo/.cxoffice/desktopdata/cxoffice-0/cxmenu/xdg-kde-application
> >s/CrossOver' directory: mkdir /home/pwaldo: Permission denied
> > at /home/paul/cxoffice/lib/perl/CXUtils.pm line 453
> >
> > I used to be user pwaldo, now I am user paul, so /home/pwaldo does not
> > exist,
> > but /home/paul does.  It seems that the installer is storing my old home
> > directory, and not using the current home.  Any ideas?  Thanks in
> > advance!
> >
> > Paul
> >
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