Bug 116777 - Portable Install deleted Windows Install
Summary: Portable Install deleted Windows Install
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.4.5.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2018-04-03 16:40 UTC by kingsmedley
Modified: 2018-04-05 11:07 UTC (History)
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Description kingsmedley 2018-04-03 16:40:44 UTC
Description:
I had LibreOffice 5.4.5 installed on my Win7 (x64) PC. My wife wanted a portable version on a USB stick. So I downloaded the portable version 6.0(.2?) and set it up on her stick. Now, the LibreOffice install on my PC doesn't work. It is still in my Start menu, but the shortcuts are pointing to drive F instead of E, where my install was. The uninstaller doesn't remove these traces, because it also wants to go to drive F. Likewise, attempting a new install won't run because it cannot find drive F either. 

Eventually I solved the removal problem by inserting a random USB stick to take the F designation, ran the installer for 6.0.2.1, and chose remove. I then used the same installer to reinstall LibreOffice.

It is counter-intuitive to me that putting a portable version on a stick would wipe out the preexisting install. Why assume the stick is intended to run on this PC? The installer should have asked before removing the old one from my hard drive. It would also be helpful if the installer would give you an opportunity to remove a borked install when it can't find a removable drive that it expects would hold much of the data it is looking for, perhaps offering a troubleshooting option rather than forcing a quit.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Perform standard windows install of LibreOffice.
2. Install LibreOffice Portable to a USB stick.
3. Remove stick and attempt to launch LibreOffice from start menu.

Actual Results:  
Initial install is destroyed.

Expected Results:
Portable version should have been created on USB stick without interfering with original install.


Reproducible: Didn't try


User Profile Reset: No



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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2018-04-05 11:02:21 UTC
Please discuss this in the portable apps forum https://portableapps.com/forums/support/libreoffice_portable