Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Civilme:
>
> Thanks so very much for sharing your experiences with StarOffice,
> especially the part about backup. Maybe that's what they mean by backup
> -- sort of like Sentry in Dos/Windows3.1, where the backup is hidden
> until and unless you delete it. Then you go to Sentry, which can restore
> your file intact.
>
> What do you think?
>
> What are the experiences of other StarOffice users? Can you actually see
> a backup of a file (assuming that you checked "Always create backup
> copy" under Options, General, Save)? Do you see a file that says:
> foo.bak or something like that (e.g. as in WordPerfect). Or is the
> backup hidden, as Civilme suggests? My Que book on StarOffice states
> that you should see a foo.bak up file along with your original saved
> file. Please let us know.
>
> Thank yo so very much.
>
> Benjamin
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OK I did a run with the backups specifically checked in the
Tools/Options/General
I made a file called backuptest, saved it, exited StarOffice, started
StarOffice, opened it, changed it, saved it.
Looking in my directory under Office51 in ~/Office51/work I find the file
backuptest.sdw. In ~/Office51/backups, I find the file backuptest.bak
After changing the name to backuplook.sdw and opening it with StarOffice,
it is the unmodified version of my original backuptest file.
Yes, they do mean that, as you suggested. <Sheepish Grin> I learn so much
by trying to duplicate the difficulties of others, and by giving the wrong
answers to questions and being corrected that I think this list should
begin to offer certificates or degrees.
Civileme
