Upgrade StorageWinword install bug report with sollution
I have for a long time been getting the plugin install failure, when trying to install the plugin for Word 2007.
I had to manually install the plugin each time.
Well I searched the install files and found the sollution.
I have had 2 versions of Office installed, and this makes Zotero installer crash:
In this file installer searches for the STARTUP folder for Word.
.....\extensions\zoteroWinWordIntegration@zotero.org\resource\installer.jsm
It has this line finding the STARTUP folder:
....\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\"+i+".0\\Word\\Options"
The problem is, that it finds the old Office "11.0"
So I changed the line to : ....\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\12.0\\Word\\Options"
And also a bit further down the file.
And now it installs without any problems.
Hope this will help someone else, and maybe get a dev to fix the bug in the plugin installer.
I had to manually install the plugin each time.
Well I searched the install files and found the sollution.
I have had 2 versions of Office installed, and this makes Zotero installer crash:
In this file installer searches for the STARTUP folder for Word.
.....\extensions\zoteroWinWordIntegration@zotero.org\resource\installer.jsm
It has this line finding the STARTUP folder:
....\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\"+i+".0\\Word\\Options"
The problem is, that it finds the old Office "11.0"
So I changed the line to : ....\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\12.0\\Word\\Options"
And also a bit further down the file.
And now it installs without any problems.
Hope this will help someone else, and maybe get a dev to fix the bug in the plugin installer.
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SimonThis case generally works fine, since the code tries to install to the startup folders for all versions of Word between 9 and 14. (I test on a machine with 5 versions of Office installed.) In your case, it sounds like you customized the startup folder location for Word 11, but either you deleted that startup folder or your user account doesn't have permission to write to it. We could modify the code to only throw an error if it fails to install to all startup folders, but this isn't generally a problem.
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