https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126699
--- Comment #3 from [email protected] --- Thanks for help. The issue for me was not data loss. It was loss of custom settings on OS freeze/crash. And that occurred when an OpenOffice document was open at the time of the crash. I just now read the tutorial on backing up the User Profile and that’s all I need to solve that problem. (In investigating this matter I had searched the forum under “settings” “configuration” “options” “custom” -- all of which generated huge lists of forum topics -- but not under “profile”. And so I never made it to the User Profile tutorial.) Note that I actually had at one point found the user profile folder. But I didn’t know that I had to exit OpenOffice completely for custom profile settings changes to show in those files. In testing to see whether there is where custom settings are kept, when I made options changes and looked for user profile folder updates, there weren’t any, since I hadn’t exited completely before checking. (The only file that updated prior to exit was “standard.soc”, the colors pallette.) So I (wrongly) concluded that that wasn’t where the settings were kept. I reported this issue to bugzilla because (1) I (mistakenly) thought custom settings weren’t located in a single convenient place, and should be (although admittedly, that’s not really a ‘bug’). And (2) because I felt custom settings shouldn’t be lost on an OS crash. It would be nice if OpenOffice had a feature wherein various Profile settings could be saved by the user in single backup files, then imported back in when desired, as can be done in certain other software apps. Thanks again for help and sorry for confusion. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
