You are exactly correct Eberhard. Technically not an Open Office responsibility. However, #1 as an "open source" right up OO's alley and #2 if there is a lacking of the program being written correctly now sold us from store shelves, then it is something imho of OO concern and also a GREAT OPPORTUNITY to jump into the ring and shine their opponent's right eye for having dropped the ball to computing Consumers.
Not to mention that it would increase Open Office desirability and show OO cares what happens to people using their freeware enough to pick up the slack. Simply put, it adds several layers of Value... that would likely result in an increased donation to be shared by the OO team. Riley ----- Original Message ----- From: Eberhard Roloff To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:52 PM Subject: [discuss] Re: Too Much Hard Drive Clunk Riley wrote: > I would like to propose a future Project for Open Office, unless somebody knows a program already does this. I've had many hard drives crash in the past so >I've developed this habit of placing copies of files on additional partitions. A great habit to have, so if the system partition goes down I still have my files. >But now my whole hard drive has become filled with copies! > > I know Norton used to have a program for cleaning up the hdd but, I believe Open Office people could write one better. >I'd like to see where the copies were placed in subdirectories named after their original location. And after copying all the copies to one partition that >way (or a new hard drive or backup external drive), then show comparisons of the files for exact copies and dates or not, with a point & click demolition >of the ones not to save... without deleting the subs under it, which I suppose would be a recopying first to the directory of the one being deleted, then deletion. > > I just think Open Office could do a much better job of cleaning up hard drives than what is on the market. I trust Open Office people more than anybody. >Besides, if you make a product like that I really need I'd find some Donation money here somewhere, I'm sure of it. Seems like a good project, >a couple days work for a few hundred thousand dollars donation... from the Group! Whew. > > Thanks. Woody > > http://tinyurl.com/StardustEnergy (my recent contribution to the Cause) > > Honestly it is hard for me to recognize this to be the task of an office suite. Imho provision against disk failure is the user's responsibilitiy and there are tools for it. Maybe rsync does what you are looking for. You can script and automate it, both on Win and on Lin. There is also unison, if you are looking for more two-directional syncs and more GUI, both on Win and Lin. Finally a bunch of backup solutions is available for Win and Lin, of which a good percentage is free as in speech and free as in cost. Kind regards Eberhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
