Extensions disappear with LO update

Hello,

After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5 from 3.4 in Mac OS X 10.6.8, I noticed that all of my installed extensions disappered, and I had to re-download and re-install each manually.

Is this a known phenomenon? Or did I do something wrong? I would like to make sure that I won't have to go through this process again when LibreOffice 3.6 is released.

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Hi :)
I think it is worth backing-up your user-profile before upgrading.  Unlikely things do go wrong occasionally
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-true.html
The trick is to make it work in your favour.  If you do make a back-up the chances are you wont ever need it and will have wasted your time.  If you don't back-up then chances are you will regret that and have to waste the next chunk of time fixing things. 
Regards from
Tom :) 


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Subject: [libreoffice-users] Extensions disappear with LO update
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Date: Thursday, 28 June, 2012, 23:21

Hello,

After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5 from 3.4 in Mac OS X 10.6.8, I noticed
that all of my installed extensions disappered, and I had to re-download and
re-install each manually.

Is this a known phenomenon? Or did I do something wrong? I would like to
make sure that I won't have to go through this process again when
LibreOffice 3.6 is released.

Thank you in advance for your replies.

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Same thing happened to my Ubuntu system going from 3.4.6 to 3.5.4.

I was told that:
   1]  the extensions might not work with 3.5 so they do not keep them
in your profile

   2]  the system stores some of the profile in a different place, and
it did not get copied correctly

For me, neither answer worked to my satisfaction.

The Fix is just re-install them.  I had 3 to 6 .oxt files to reinstall
when I updated each of my Ubuntu and Windows computers from 3.4.6 to 3.5.4.

Well, it would make sense that there might be some concern that the
extensions created for 3.3 and 3.4 would work with 3.5.


On 06/28/2012 06:21 PM, avamk wrote:


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You should back up your profile every month and for every time you
change versions of LO.  3.4.6 to 3.5.4 yes.  3.5.3 to 3.5.4, or 3.5.4 to
3.5.5, still yes.

I think if you have a good working profile for LO, you should back it up
so if your profile gets corrupted you will have a working one to fall
back on.


On 06/28/2012 06:31 PM, Tom Davies wrote:


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      When I download extensions, I save them in a folder. Then when
upgrade LO as others have mentioned, I open LO and use Tools > Extension
Manager  on the Splash screen. Then I click the Add button to install
them one at a time. For the extensions that will not work on the latest
version of LO, I can always remove them and check for updates.

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Since I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8, I suppose I can use its Time Machine feature to restore my past LibreOffice profile.

However, I do think it would be nice for LibreOffice to address migrating to new versions in a more user friendly way. Perhaps something like the automatic check that happens when Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird get updated. The feature will test all addons to make sure they work, and if not, offers to try to update them for you.

Making backups is always important, but, again, I propose some enhancements could be made to the LibreOffice upgrade process so that the user experience can be less "abrupt/surprising" than extensions disappearing without warning.

Thanks for your answers!