[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128956] Switching between two versions of LibreOffice resets user profile

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128956

--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #3)
> 1) The change in behavior is pretty recent, it has worked fine up til now,
> so hardly an "old" way of parallel installing. 
> 

Sorry, I was not clear on that, was referring to the methods in the  Wiki for
'installing in parallel'. 

And in fact, both the 'new' macOS method of a helper script setting a
PROFILE_DIR environment variable; or the 'old' method of manual edit of
bootstraprc and setting the internal 'UserInstallation' variable to internal
$ORIGIN path work with a unique profile for each LibreOffice installation.

Either method is intended to allow you to keep your operational user profile
separate from your testing profile--so as to not corrupt your user profile, and
reduce the frequency of needing to reset profile to restore function.

But that is not really the main issue of the comment 0 which is about your Java
runtime.  For that I can not confirm as each install I perform receives its own
 newly configured default profile.

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