On Fri, 18 May 2012 06:26:33 +0100
Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> One aspect of the User Experience which frequently manifests itself for Users
> is a bad file save, leading to a corrupt file, which is partially or totally
> irrecoverable
Sorry! My previous posting got away before I had completed it.
In my programming days (some 25-30 years ago) it was de rigeur that the
original file was never over-written until the new file had been completely
saved, so that if there was a crash (app, OS, or power failure) the original
file existed, perhaps as a .bak file, but there, untouched. This does not
happen in OpenOffice (all forks as far as I know). Some thought needs to be
given to this and to the defaults of the backup ("always create backup" to be
on by default).
Many of the instances of corrupt files are caused by User error (too quick
shutdown before write buffers are flushed?); a part of the User Experience is
to ensure against the stupidity of Users.
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Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
