Hagar Delest wrote:
We see such reports in the forum from time to time (and I experienced that once in the past): a file saved and then the day after you see that the file reverted to a previous version.
Rob had an interesting theory about this. One starts editing a DOCX file, works on it, saves (more or less inadvertently) as ODT since we don't support writing DOCX currently, then at some moment there is a power failure, the ODT file is unluckily unrecoverable/damaged and all the user can find is yesterday's DOCX file. This does not mean to diminish the issue, but it provides a plausible explanation for some (not all) of the reports.
OP raises a clever possibility IMHO: could the first backup file be somehow put aside and not updated at each manual save and then after a crash (or not, maybe an OS problem) replace the last saved version? Reverting it to an old version?
I couldn't reproduce anything like this: from a quick test, it seems that the backup copy in .openoffice/backup is updated when I save the file again. But in theory your scenario could still happen if for some reason at a certain point the user disables the "Save backup copy" option.
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