Problem with running Office:Mac 2008 Installer

[Mikey]

I'm curious about what gets installed by the Office 2008 Special Media Edition installer AFTER it runs the installer script near the end that puts icons of the applications in the Dock. My Office Mac 2008 installer crashed viciously at that point and took out the Finder with it so I had to do a hard restart to get my computer running again. (2.8 GHz Intel iMac, Tiger 10.4.11). I don't want to do a complete re-install of Office 2008 but I'm wondering if anything important might be missing. The applications all seem to work OK.

 

[Richard Flaherty]

When I installed Office: mac 2008, I got an error message indicating that the auto updater did not installed. The error message said I would have to re-install Office 2008 again; I did. Still the auto updater would not install.

Now I can't check to see if there are any recent updates. I went to MS mactopia web site but, I can't find Recent Updates for 2008.

 

[CyberTaz]

You can't find any because there are, as yet, no updates to Office 2008...
It's barely been on the street a week - give it some time

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

I'm curious about what gets installed by the Office 2008 Special Media Edition
installer AFTER it runs the installer script near the end that puts icons of
the applications in the Dock. My Office Mac 2008 installer crashed viciously
at that point and took out the Finder with it so I had to do a hard restart to
get my computer running again. (2.8 GHz Intel iMac, Tiger 10.4.11). I don't
want to do a complete re-install of Office 2008 but I'm wondering if anything
important might be missing. The applications all seem to work OK.

I have no idea why it crashed. But, if things seem to be working correctly
after the restart, I¹d leave well enough alone. If you find some problems
later, report these and we¹ll se if we can help.

 

[Priyanka Singhal]

<Richard Flaherty> wrote in message When I installed Office: mac 2008, I got an error message indicating that the auto updater did not installed. The error message said I would have to re-install Office 2008 again; I did. Still the auto updater would not install.

Now I can't check to see if there are any recent updates. I went to MS mactopia web site but, I can't find Recent Updates for 2008.

Hi Richard,

Can you please send me a screen shot of the message you are getting about auto updater. In addition Can you please check \Library\application Support\Microsoft folder to see if there is a Folder called "MAU2.0" .

Thanks,
Priyanka

 

[William Smith]

I'm curious about what gets installed by the Office 2008 Special Media
Edition installer AFTER it runs the installer script near the end that
puts icons of the applications in the Dock. My Office Mac 2008 installer
crashed viciously at that point and took out the Finder with it so I had
to do a hard restart to get my computer running again. (2.8 GHz Intel
iMac, Tiger 10.4.11). I don't want to do a complete re-install of Office
2008 but I'm wondering if anything important might be missing. The
applications all seem to work OK.

The Office installer now uses Apple's Installer application. That means
that just after you launch the installer you can view much of what is
happening.

Select File --> Show Files to see a complete list of what will be
installed on your computer from the Office installer package.

Select Window --> Installer Log to watch the progress of the
installation. Change the drop down menu from Show Errors Only to Show
Errors and Progress or Show All Logs.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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