Provide a Config/Profile Backup & Validation Tool for Pro

RTPL_AU — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:04:48 GMT

When experiencing various Pro bugs & features, a common request from Support is to delete your ArcGIS profile / cache / config folders.

This is fine and may solve a/the symptom. With new ~~bugs~~ features being added so frequently, it is becoming a time consuming chore to experience an issue, wipe your profile, recreate all your settings and restart the real work you were doing before a crash/freeze/hiccup/tanty; all while not knowing 100% if this unpaid labour will indeed resolve the issue.

This Idea asks that Esri build, and provides at no cost, a tool that can backup any and all configuration you may have on Pro, and also be a validation tool to check for any issues in your profile / config that may cause issues.
It should have the ability for you to selectively restore your profile and config components so hat there is a minimum of disruption to income producing work.

Brownie points to enable such a backup to be stored/synced in your AGOL/Enterprise license profile so that you can magically have all your settings available from wherever you may log into a new instance. This synced instance needs to be temporal i.e. so that you can go back to a dated & known working state quickly.

Caramel slice points to make it an offline config editor as well so that you can go through a backed-up profile and painstakingly change any occurrence of the fonts you don't like and replace them with Arial 12 Bold.

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Provide a Config/Profile Backup & Validation Tool for Pro