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turboSPE · Aug 28, 2009, 10:45 PM

I upgraded to 10.6 today and decided to swap hard drives to clean install. In trying to install Office 2008, the installer asks to download Rosetta. Is there a way to get around using Rosetta to install? TIA!

turboSPE

Cold Warrior · Aug 28, 2009, 10:50 PM

what about drag-dropping the Office 2008 folder from your previous HD to the new one? I think I've done this in the past and it has worked on 10.5 systems, but I don't remember exactly.

turboSPE · Aug 28, 2009, 11:38 PM

I'll give it a shot, thanks!

turboSPE · Aug 29, 2009, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by turboSPE

I'll give it a shot, thanks!

That worked like a charm!

Art Vandelay · Aug 29, 2009, 02:10 AM

You don't have a complete install, however. You don't have the updater, XML support, the error reporter, fonts, and the help viewer. You need the installer to get all those components.

Cold Warrior · Aug 29, 2009, 01:24 PM

If it was a previously installed using the Office 2008 installer, wouldn't those components be in the Office 2008 folder? Mine has the office autoupdater application in that path.

Art Vandelay · Aug 29, 2009, 01:31 PM

It was a clean install of SL. All of those components are in the /Library folder.

Cold Warrior · Aug 29, 2009, 01:49 PM

Maybe a drag-drop of those too? The OP still has his old HD w/ all of that on it.

chrisford · Aug 30, 2009, 11:28 AM

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd co-opt this one. Apologies if this isn't the done thing

Do any of you lot have any experience of running Office 2004 on SL? I'm cautious of updating for fear of losing Word & PPT[1].

Thanks.

[1] I say 'cautious'. I would say 'strangely excited by the prospect' if it weren't for all my clients using Word etc.

kcmac · Aug 30, 2009, 08:40 PM

Can you delete Rosetta once it has been installed?

Art Vandelay · Aug 30, 2009, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior

Maybe a drag-drop of those too? The OP still has his old HD w/ all of that on it.

Sure, that would work.

Art Vandelay · Aug 30, 2009, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by kcmac

Can you delete Rosetta once it has been installed?

Sure, the Rosetta package is only installing /usr/libexec/oah/translate, which amounts to 2.3MB.

tonewheel · Aug 30, 2009, 09:19 PM

What are the drawbacks from leaving Rosetta where it is?

Art Vandelay · Aug 30, 2009, 09:25 PM

A loss of 2.3MB of disk space.

ibook_steve · Aug 31, 2009, 12:06 AM

I'm confused. Office 2008 is Intel code (universal). Why do you even need Rosetta?

Steve

Art Vandelay · Aug 31, 2009, 12:58 AM

There is PPC code in the Installer package for Office 2008. You don't need it for Office itself but you need it to install it.

AKcrab · Aug 31, 2009, 01:37 AM

Good job microsoft. 2008 already can't be installed via drag-and-drop like the previous version.. and you also can't install without a serial number, and now it can't be installed without rosetta on 10.6.

Aren't they supposed to stop selling office?

jh0lland · Aug 31, 2009, 01:41 PM

[QUOTE=chrisford;3878059]Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd co-opt this one. Apologies if this isn't the done thing

Do any of you lot have any experience of running Office 2004 on SL? I'm cautious of updating for fear of losing Word & PPT[1].

Group,
I installed SL and Office 2004 is now unusable due to not displaying the contents of existing files. Haven't found any discussion of this when looking around. Any ideas?
Joe