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Snow Leopard & Office 2008
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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!
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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.
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I'll give it a shot, thanks!
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Originally Posted by turboSPE
I'll give it a shot, thanks!
That worked like a charm!
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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.
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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.
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It was a clean install of SL. All of those components are in the /Library folder.
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Maybe a drag-drop of those too? The OP still has his old HD w/ all of that on it.
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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.
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Can you delete Rosetta once it has been installed?
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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.
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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.
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What are the drawbacks from leaving Rosetta where it is?
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A loss of 2.3MB of disk space.
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I'm confused. Office 2008 is Intel code (universal). Why do you even need Rosetta?
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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.
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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?
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[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
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