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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / May 2008Difference between 2 Excel 2008 preferences? One did not rebuild???
First, please, what is the difference between: Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Excel.plist Users/~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/com.microsoft.Excel.prefs.plist Second, I trashed both files when Excel 2008 12.1.0 kept crashing and then re-started my PPC OS 10.5.2 Mac. The first one rebuilt itself when I created new preferences after launching but the second preference file did not rebuild. Should I copy com.microsoft.Excel.prefs.plist from a recently cloned volume to Users/~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/ or how do I make up for its absence since I trashed it? Respectfully, Norm The one that's "missing" is the .plist file left behind by Excel 2004. If you no longer have that version installed you don't need the file. If you *do* still have it installed it will create a new one on next launch, just like 2008 did. The different versions simply store their respective .plist file in separate locations. Don't copy the other back to your active system. It may be that the prior existence of both contributed to the crashes. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 5/20/08 9:43 PM, in article C458CC5A.8D32%nnager@vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu, "Norman R. Nager, Ph.D." <nnager@vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu> wrote: > First, please, what is the difference between: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Respectfully, Norm Thanks very much, Bob, for your counsel. I may have a number of Office 2004 preferences in the /Users/~/Library/Microsoft folder. How does one tell what should be trashed, please? There's an Office 2008 subfolder in that Microsoft folder but also a lot of others that date back to Office 2004 days. What should be in the /Users/~/Library/Microsoft folder? Respectfully, Norm On 5/20/08 9:54 PM, in article C4592347.3BA24%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > The one that's "missing" is the .plist file left behind by Excel 2004. If > you no longer have that version installed you don't need the file. If you [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >> Respectfully, Norm On 5/21/08 12:35 AM, in article C4591ED3.8DE3%nnager@vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu, "nnager@vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu" <nnager@vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu> wrote: > I may have a number of Office 2004 preferences in the > /Users/~/Library/Microsoft folder. That's so, even though I uninstalled Office 2004 before installing Office 2008. These are the preferences--including the Office 2008 subfolder--in my /Users/~/Library/Microsoft folder. Camera & Scanner Device List com.microsoft.AlertsDaemon.plist com.microsoft.Entourage.prefs.plist com.microsoft.Office.prefs.plist com.microsoft.PowerPoint.prefs.plist com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist Entourage Preferences Excel Toolbars (11) Microsoft Office ACL [English] Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Office 11 First Run Office 2008 Office Font Cache (11) Office Registration Cache 11 OLE Registration Database 11 PowerPoint Toolbars (11) VBA Preferences Word Font Substitutes Please give your counsel on which to trash if one has no plans to ever go back to Office 2004 and wishes to lessen the chances of corruption of Office 2008 preferences. Respectfully, Norm > On 5/20/08 9:54 PM, in article C4592347.3BA24%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>> >>> Respectfully, Norm Since you've uninstalled Office 2004 (and assuming you don't intend to reinstall it), you can get rid of everything but the Office 2008 folder. > On 5/21/08 12:35 AM, in article > C4591ED3.8DE3%nnager@vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu, [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > back to Office 2004 and wishes to lessen the chances of corruption of Office > 2008 preferences. Thanks, J.E.! You might wish to consider an announcement to the blog microsoft.public.mac.office____ newsgroups suggesting a clearing out of preferences that remain after uninstalling Office 2004 to prevent possible corruption of Office 2008 preferences or processes. Respectfully, Norm On 5/21/08 4:23 AM, in article jemcgimpsey-3D6FAB.05233621052008@news.microsoft.com, "J.E. MVP: J.E. McGimpsey" <jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote: > Since you've uninstalled Office 2004 (and assuming you don't intend to > reinstall it), you can get rid of everything but the Office 2008 folder. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> back to Office 2004 and wishes to lessen the chances of corruption of Office >> 2008 preferences. > You might wish to consider an announcement to the blog > microsoft.public.mac.office____ newsgroups suggesting a clearing out of > preferences that remain after uninstalling Office 2004 to prevent possible > corruption of Office 2008 preferences or processes. If one uses Remove Office, as suggested by MS, the appropriate prefs are removed. However, there isn't, AFAIK, any overlap, so removing 2004 prefs *should* have no effect on 2008. On 5/23/08 6:52 AM, in article jemcgimpsey-603F42.07524323052008@news.microsoft.com, "J.E. MVP: J.E. McGimpsey" <jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote: >> You might wish to consider an announcement to the blog >> microsoft.public.mac.office____ newsgroups suggesting a clearing out of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > If one uses Remove Office, as suggested by MS, the appropriate prefs are > removed. Hmmmm? My un-installation of Office 2004 was with Remove Office. Yet the specific 2004 preferences noted earlier in this thread were not removed. Remove Office zapped 2004 prefs only in the prime folder: /users/~/library/preferences but failed to remove any of the 2004 prefs in the subfolder: /users/~/library/preferences/microsoft. Perhaps Remove Office works differently in uninstalling from the /users/~/library/preferences/microsoft subfolder with the PPC version of Leopard? Respectfully, Norm > Perhaps Remove Office works differently in uninstalling from the > /users/~/library/preferences/microsoft subfolder with the PPC version of > Leopard? Or it may work differently than I remember. I haven't run it in a while, and I don't have a machine I want to cycle today, but maybe over the weekend... On 5/23/08 10:55 AM, in article jemcgimpsey-A9852C.11551423052008@news.microsoft.com, "J.E. MVP: J.E. McGimpsey" <jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote: >> Perhaps Remove Office works differently in uninstalling from the >> /users/~/library/preferences/microsoft subfolder with the PPC version of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > and I don't have a machine I want to cycle today, but maybe over the > weekend... Please see my May 23, 2008, 11:40 a.m., new post "Anomaly? Office 2008 Remove Office failed to zap some preferences" It includes specifics of what that will save you the time of finding my list of un-zapped 2004 prefs in earlier posts in this thread. |
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