On January 13 2010 4:38 pm, Sean wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cliff" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:47 PM > Subject: [discuss] Re: piece of crap word processor > > >> On January 11 2010 8:02 pm, Alex Nyunt wrote: >> >> > Michael, >> > >> > I appreciate your response. Indeed, compared to the tone of much of >> > the mail I have received in reference to this, your response is >> > measured and reasonable. >> > >> > What can I say? I was angry. I am still angry. A large volume of > people >> > have pointed out that OpenOffice does have autosave, a fact of which I > am >> > aware, having used this program in one form or another for about seven >> > years; however, in this case that function did not work. The program >> > froze and when I restarted it, instead of encountering the recover >> > function as I >> > expected, the main menu came up--no recover. Since there seems to be >> > actual communication going on at this point, perhaps you could look >> > into the reasons that something like that might occur so that it >> > doesn't > happen >> > to anyone else in the future. >> >> The autosave function was broken in one version of OOo. It was 3.0.? I > can't >> remember exactly, but I do remember being extremely frustrated when I >> lost about eight hours work because I had come to rely on the autosave >> feature working. > > System crash? It should be able to be set so you're prompted to save your > file upon exiting the program. Therefore it still shouldn't be a problem > unless the system crashed.
Power Failure. > You're not saying you use Windoze like I do, are you? <g> I mean I may be > wrong but I've long heard about Linux's stability that there was one > obvious conclusion. > But luckily the auto recover function works when all else fails. No! I use linux,but even that is no defence against a thunderstorm. The autorecover works "now". As I said above, it was broken in at least one release of 3.0. I simply posted to reassure the OP that it was quite possible that autosave did not work on his version. He had plenty of people insisting it did without really knowing. -- Cliff Please reply to the list only. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
