Bug 168244 - Not able to set a default location for LibreOffice to save documents
Summary: Not able to set a default location for LibreOffice to save documents
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167388
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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25.8.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2025-09-02 02:06 UTC by Bob
Modified: 2025-09-02 04:29 UTC (History)
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Description Bob 2025-09-02 02:06:25 UTC
Description:
When I create a new text doc and then click the Save icon, the program does not use the My Documents path entry under Tools - Path.  Instead I get a default path like C:\Users\rjeng\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\template on my Win PC. The program is set to use a template as the default when I create a new document, but I do not want to save the new document there. Same behavior on Mac Mini M4 under MacOS 15.6.1.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Writer template is assigned as the default document template
2. Click Writer Document under Create on opening screen
3. Enter text in the document then click the Save icon in the toolbar or Sav As from the File menu
4. Default save location is the template folder.

Actual Results:
The selected document path to save the newly created document is the LO template folder.

Expected Results:
The initial path the document should be saved to should be the path saved at Tools - LibreOffice - Paths - My Documents


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.0.4 (X86_64)
Build ID: 48f00303701489684e67c38c28aff00cd5929e67
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 nobu 2025-09-02 04:29:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167388 ***