Workaround for Office and network home directories.

There are a bunch of annoying bugs to do with Office versions earlier than 2004 if you have network home directories.

Actually, the bugs will hit you even if you have your home directory on a different local partition to the one that Office is running from.

This simple script gives you a workaround.

cd /Volumes/Homes/staff
for user in $(ls /Volumes/Homes/staff | grep -e "^[a-z]")
do
 /usr/bin/chflags nouchg $user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
 /bin/rm -f $user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
 /bin/mkdir -p $user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
 /usr/bin/touch $user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
 /usr/sbin/chown -R $user $user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
 /usr/bin/chflags uchg $user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
done

Basically you just need to trash the file “Office Registration Cache X”, touch it to create an empty file, make sure the user is the owner of it, and then lock it.

The reason I have my loop look like:

for user in $(ls /Volumes/Homes/staff | grep -e "^[a-z]")

is because all my staff home directories start with a lowercase letter, and various group sharepoints exist at the same level, but I start them with either an uppercase letter or an underscore.

The grep command just makes sure that only folders starting with a lowercase letter are looped, which also gets rid of those annoying .DS_Store etc files.

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