How to backup openoffice profile

daveglass · May 9, 2020, 11:57am

As the title says how do you back up your profile?

anon73440385 · May 9, 2020, 12:25pm

Hello,

besides the fact that this site is about LibreOffice (and not OpenOffice):

General solution on all operating systems

Start in Safe Mode using Help -> Restart in Safe Mode and confirm the restart using button: Restart
Archive your profile expanding Advanced (click on the word Advanced right above Help button) and click Archive User Profile button
Click button Open Containing Folder
Copy file libreoffice-profile.zip to some save place
Recommendation Rename the file to some name indicating the time you’ve taken the backup (e.g. libreoffice-profile-2020-05-09.zip)

Manual solution for Linux

Manual solution for macOS

Open a terminal
Change to the profile directory: cd $HOME/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/user
Execute: tar -cvpf $HOME/Documents/LibreOffice-UserProfile-2020-05-09.tar

Manual solution for Windows

Open File Explorer (aka “Windows Explorer”)
Type %appdata%\libreoffice\4\ into File Explorer address bar
Right click on User -> Send to -> Compressed (zipped) folder (creates a file called user.zip
Copy file user.zip to some save place
Recommendation Rename the file to some name indicating the time you’ve taken the backup (e.g. user-2020-05-09.zip)

Hope that helps.

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