[texpoint-users] OS X OLE Registration Database 11 corruption

Matt Hanes mhanes at math.gatech.edu
Mon Sep 10 05:06:43 PDT 2007


Andreas:

I just test this on the user's machine and I can reproduce this 100% of
the time. If I run Powerpoint with TexPoint installed and then run it again
without deleting the file, the menu doesn't appear. If I delete that
single file, everything works as it should.

The current contents of the directory (after deleting OLE Registration
Database 11):
Entourage Preferences
Excel Toolbars (11)
Microsoft PowerPoint
Office 11 First Run
Office Font Cache (11)
Office Registration Cache 11
PowerPoint Toolbars (11)
VBA Preferences
com.microsoft.Excel.prefs.plist
com.microsoft.Office.prefs.plist
com.microsoft.PowerPoint.prefs.plist

Matt

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:39:46PM -0500, Andreas Glatz wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
>  I didn't see this kind of problem while testing.
> Is really "OLE Registration Database 11" the reason? It seems to be rather related to Office 2004, and TexPoint has not
> much to do with OLE.
> Office configuration files which Office might corrupt are "Carbon Registration Database" and sometimes:
>   Microsoft PowerPoint
>   PowerPoint Toolbars (10)
>   VBA Preferences
> in ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/.
> 
> I will do some more testing though.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> 
> On 2007-09-06 09:57, Matt Hanes wrote:
> > I've just installed TexPoint for a user on an Intel Mac running an updated
> > 10.4 installation with Microsoft Office X. The software was installed
> > as root into /Applications/TexPoint using the automated installer. Users
> > have read-only access to /Applications.
> > 
> > When TexPoint is first added to PowerPoint, the TexPoint menu appears.
> > When PowerPoint is restarted, the TexPoint menu is not displayed, though
> > it does show as installed in the Add-ins dialog box.
> > 
> > If ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/OLE Registration Database 11 is
> > deleted before PowerPoint is restarted, the TexPoint menu appears.
> > 
> > Is there a solution beyond writing a wrapper to delete the file everytime
> > PowerPoint is started?
> > 
> > Matt



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