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Why has the profile directory location changed since LibreOffice 3.5?

asked 2012-03-06 13:18:16 +0200

MagicFab gravatar image MagicFab flag of Canada
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updated 2012-03-08 04:29:31 +0200

Many workarounds when debugging and troubleshooting suggest removing the profile directory to reset all parameters of the application. In this answer there is mention of LibreOffice 3.5.0 now using ~/.config/libreoffice instead of ~/.libreoffice.

Why did this change? Has this changed for all OSs or only GNU/Linux?

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answered 2012-03-07 17:03:51 +0200

cloph gravatar image cloph
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It did change because ~/.config is a not-so-new-anymore standard for configuration settings on linux: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec

And it did not change for Windows (although different versions of windows use different paths - see also http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile), and did not change for Mac OSX

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Thank you!

MagicFab ( 2012-03-08 04:29:59 +0200 )edit

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