Dolphin Can't Open OpenOffice Files

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I’m an idiot! My apologies! :man_facepalming:

As it does work under your new account, we’re going to do the following:

  • Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.

    groups U45
groups U45-2

    (Where obviously, U45 is your old user and U45-2 is your new one.)
    E.G. if U45 is a member of operator and U45-2 isn’t, execute:

    usermod --append --groups operator U45-2

  • Copy all data files from your old profile into your new one

    cp --verbose --recursive --preserve=time-stamps /home/U45/Documents/* /home/U45-2/Documents/

    If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:

    rm --recursive /home/U45/Documents/*

    repeat for:

    • Pictures
    • Videos
    • Music
    • .thunderbird
    • .mozilla/firefox/
    • Templates, and everything else that is important to you.
    • Linux games like Battle of Wesnoth have their game data stored under ~/.local/share/ E.G. ~/.local/share/wesnoth/

    After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on:

    usermod --lock U45

    If you would have theming going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / whatever per day and if the problem crops up again, roll back your last change

  • in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.

  • If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.

  • From now on, start making backups so you can roll back and never have to do this again:

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