OOO not auto-saving by default
Sean Bruno
sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Mon Nov 22 22:18:16 UTC 2004
> As far as i know - it *should* have. Not save/overwrite the old file,
> just create a new temp one. Which is detected in case of of chrash, and
> recovered.
>
> As far as i know, OO does this, MS word does this - even vim does this!
> That is why you can recover documents never ever saved.
>
> But i have seen cases where it haven't worked - looks like OO haven't
> detected where the file was. Or it was never created.
>
> When that is said, i have used oo for about 1½ year now, and can only
> remember two bad crashes - and in only one case i was unable to recover.
> I remember cursing word many, many times more
Then have did my spouse run into a bug? The system was overloaded and
soffice.bin was killed due to an out of memory condition. I expected
that OOO would have recovered from this state in some way, but I could
not determine where the backup/temp file was.
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