Joerg Barfurth wrote:
Hi Peter,
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
I recently reported a Priority 2 bug in the OO.o 1.9.104 beta release
(Issue #49865), occasioned by the severe loss of data in files
containing several versions of a document. The problem was provoked by
the conversion process to version 2 file formats (.sxw to .odt and
.sxc to .ods) in that all versions of the document but the current one
were discarded.
What is lacking is a file converter that converts sxw to odt files while
'preserving' older versions. If you need this, that is a new feature, so
calling this an RFE is appropriate.
A better RFE would be ability to do a Save As... and not all of your
version in the off-chance you just want to change the file name.
Now, why did I put 'preserving' into quotes? Because this requirement is
still ambiguous, when conversion between different file formats are
involved: what aspects do you want to preserve?
I don't think this is really nearly as ambiguous as you make it sound.
The guy has a file with a bunch of version in it. It is currently .sxw.
He want to be able to edit it as .odt file. It doesn't really matter if
the old version are changed to .odt or not, because you can't edit them.
Make sense?
A more obvious approach would be to convert a versioned sxw file to an
ordinary versioned odt file. But that would mean that the new file
contains snapshots of 'versions' that never existed. Depending on the
nature of the file formats involved (I don't know if we support any
other versioned document formats beyond sx* and od*)
Calc has version in it, and I would assume the other component do to.
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