Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

On 25/11/16 22:39, John Hart wrote: > Automatic saving of a file every 'n' minutes, and creating an automatic backup file aren't the same thing. As far as I can determine, AOo considers thatto be two different actions, done in two different ways. >If automatic saving uses the same file name,

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

On 11/25/2016 5:41 AM, Robert Funnell wrote: Choose whether to enable AutoRecovery and how often to save the information used by the AutoRecovery process. AutoRecovery in OpenOffice.org overwrites the original file. If you have also chosen Always create backup copy, the original file then

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

On 11/25/2016 2:00 AM, Brian Barker wrote: I'm sure implementing the facilities actually took far longer than it took you to complain - falsely - that they are not there, in fact. But it was done nevertheless. And you cannot write into an application such as OpenOffice total protection against

Re: AOO-Templates

> On Oct 9, 2016, at 15:24, Brian Barker wrote: > > Google's cache of a similar address to the one you give leads to > http://templates.openoffice.org/template/download/39885 , which is probably > what you need. But note that this appears to be a template for

Re: Avoid losing files

For the record, an extension, in French was made some time ago, it works fine (just tried on xubuntu 16.10 and AOO 4.1.3): https://forum.openoffice.org/fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18=18566=241115#p241115 Should not be that difficult to find out how it works even for non-French users. There are

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

Le 25/11/2016 à 10:00, Brian Barker a écrit : At 23:17 24/11/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: I use an editor written twenty years ago for technical work. It automatically saves what you're working on every five minutes in a scratch file so if something goes wrong, you won't lose your changes.

Avoid losing files

Lost a valuable info file? You only have to lose your royal ass once to be cured. There's frequent backups, of course, but here's a simple way. Rename a file being revised by including today's date in the filename, such as "XYZ 2016-11-25". For multiple updates per day, add an alpha suffix.

Re: Rechtschreibprüfung funktioniert nicht.

Hallo Hans, > Bei automatischer Prüfung wird alles rot. Beim manueller Prüfung finden vermutlich ist das Benutzerprofil von OpenOffice defekt. - Beende OpenOffice inkl. Schnellstarter - Benenne den Ordner "user" in C:\Users\[Dein Benutzername]\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4 um, z.B.

Re: Wiederherstellung meiner Präsentation Fehlgeschlagen

Hi Hab ne Präsentation gemacht, diese konnte ich noch am 20.11.2016 öffnen. Die Datei ist vermutlich defekt. Schau mal in den (versteckten) Ordner C:\Users\[Dein Benutzername]\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4\user\backup -> Eingabe in Adressleiste des Windows Explorers:

Re: Wiederherstellung meiner Präsentation Fehlgeschlagen

Hi Anii Leiua! Wenn'st eine vernünftige Antwort willst: Wie wäre es mit (netter) Begrüßungs- und abschieds-Floskel? Aber Du hast Dir die Lösung ja schon hier geschrieben: Zitat aus Deiner Mail: "aber das ist nicht das erste mal, dass sowas passiert" Also dann nimm Deine Sicherungskopie, die Du

Wiederherstellung meiner Präsentation Fehlgeschlagen

Hab ne Präsentation gemacht, diese konnte ich noch am 20.11.2016 öffnen. Alls ich diese heute öffnen wollte kam die anzeige Wiederherstellung bla bla ihr wisst bescheid, dann stand da Wiederherstellung fehlgeschlagen, dann hat sich ein kleines Fenster geöffnet, wo drin Stand Sprache

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, James Knott wrote: ... AOO supports both backup copies and autorecovery. ... That's true, but the support could be more robust. I found this for AOO 3: << Save AutoRecovery information every Choose whether to enable AutoRecovery and how often to save the information

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

On 11/25/2016 01:17 AM, John Hart wrote: > On 11/23/2016 4:36 PM, Doug wrote: >> Take "extraordinary"--and the line I quoted says this is a PROBLEM >> known for some time; therefore presumably there is a way to solve it >> but nobody >> has bothered. And yes, I am careful, but nobody's perfect.

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

At 23:17 24/11/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: I use an editor written twenty years ago for technical work. It automatically saves what you're working on every five minutes in a scratch file so if something goes wrong, you won't lose your changes. You mean just like OpenOffice does? See Tools |