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