#1

I’ve a spreadsheet that I like to keep open at all times, but save (and auto-save) will take about 5 minutes, and during that time Calc is “not responding”, so I can’t use any Calc documents during that time. So I’m looking for a way that saving that one file does not impact my workflow on the other spreadsheets.

Running a separate instance of libre office for that file may be a solution, is that possible? Or any better ideas?
I don’t want to turn off auto-save.

#2

You could run a portable version of LibreOffice just for that spreadsheet. As a separate installation you could configure it just for that spreadsheet

#3

Not sure which operating system your are using, but using different user profiles separates different instances on Linux (no need for addiitonal installations of the software) - see the following excerpt from my Linux process list:

opaque@system:~> ps -ef | grep [s]office
opaque       2068  2031  5 11:30 pts/0    00:00:00 /opt/libreoffice7.1/program/soffice.bin -env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/LibreOffice-7.1-DE-2021-07-19 --splash-pipe=5
opaque      32388 32359  2 11:29 ?        00:00:01 /opt/libreoffice7.1/program/soffice.bin --splash-pipe=5

Process 2068 has been started using a different user profile location (using -env:UserInstallation= command line option) while process 32388 describes the start of my default instance