https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=46480
mroe <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #30 from mroe <[email protected]> --- (In reply to g.marxen from comment #28) > The backup-copy is not a real backup but the "last saved version" before the > new version. So it makes sense to have it in the same folder as the actual > "new" version. So you can easily go back to the "last" version, if f.e. the > new version is corrupt, f.e. caused by a crash. > > The bak-version is no substitute for a backup of the new version (and older > versions) on a different disk drive (Server, NAS etc.). > > So if you have your eggs only on the build-in disk drive, it makes no > difference, if new and bak-version are in different folders. But there are many related aspects. e. g. you have a USB stick which a large Document. (Yes documents especially with included pictures can be somewhat of big!) If you save the changed file and there is no more place left for a copy ... what should AOO do? At worst case you lost the file completely. > Having them in one folder, there is no need to "construct" new file names to > avoid conflicts. That's the big advantage over your proposal. If you work on test.odt, test.ods and test.odp in the same folder you will have only one test.bak only for last saved file. This behaviour is discussed since a long time ago. But I don't remember all the reasons why it wasn't changed. Maybe that a user have the right to edit files but not the right to create new files in the folder. Maybe the capability of OO edit documents via FTP and other protocols. So the only "save" version is to save the copy at a place that is known that the user have the right to create a file. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue. You are the assignee for the issue. You are watching all issue changes.
