https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126699
--- Comment #4 from orcmid <[email protected]> --- (In reply to absaluk from comment #3) > 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. [ ... ] > 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 welcome. It is useful that you provided a bugzilla report. And thank you for the follow-up account. You are correct. The profile material becomes corrupted/lost often enough that it would be helpful to be able to easily backup, restore, and reset it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
