profiles

users
#1

Hi,

There are often suggestions here for people to rename their profile to allow a new, clean, version to be created. I recently wrote my first macro (a small step for mankind…) and when I decided to give 4.4 a whirl I realised I had a new profile and my macro was gone. No huge drama recreating the minimal macro but, is there a mechanism to import specific parts of a profile? I can imagine those who indulge in industrial scale customisation don't want to lose their good work.

Cheers

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
When you install a new version of LibreOffice it usually picks up on your
old user-profile. It's only when you go from 3.x.x to 4.x.x that a new
profile is created.

So the macro should have been automatically picked up by the new install.

That is part of the whole point of User Profiles = that a new install picks
up all your configurations and settings.

So, i don't know what has gone wrong. It might be worth exploring the path
to your user-profile to see if you have somehow been given a new one.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Usually, moving/renaming profiles is very scarcely done, only in case
something goes wrong. Most of the time LibreOffice do a good job of
updating it.

Anyway, most of the actual content of the profile (macro, template, and
other stuff) can either directly be saved outside of it, and even if it's
not, each file/directory can be moved around without trouble. The only
thing that is quite hard to extract (and usually, the cause of issue) is
the registryModifications.xcu file, which contain almost all custom
configuration.

#4

and the ever helpful twitter feed provides a link to the solution (see, it was there in the first place Tim. Doh!)

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile