Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-02 Thread Marcus
Am 01/02/2016 04:10 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 1/1/2016 1:24 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 12/31/2015 10:04 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 11:49 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-02 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.01.2016 um 22:39 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > > Meanwhile, I think it would be wonderful if on opening documents there were > *accurate* warnings that the document relies on format features that are not > supported and that will not be presented or preserved properly. (If we > preserved

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-02 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 02.01.2016 um 04:10 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > > That is not quite the use-case I was thinking of. When collaborating, I > often need to edit a document I did not originate. Commonly, the > document will be in a Microsoft Word format, and has to be distributed > in that format. There is no

RE: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Marcus, That's an interesting idea from you and Andreas. > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 01:24 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document > with n

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 1/1/2016 1:24 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 12/31/2015 10:04 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 11:49 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-01 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 31/12/2015 22:04, Patricia Shanahan a écrit : Isn't a lot of this the sort of information that should be being collected in Bugzilla. I am about to start searching the mail archives to see what I can learn about the history, but a single Bugzilla number would be more convenient. If you want

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-01 Thread Marcus
Am 12/31/2015 10:04 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 11:49 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 1/1/2016 3:00 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: Le 31/12/2015 22:04, Patricia Shanahan a écrit : Isn't a lot of this the sort of information that should be being collected in Bugzilla. I am about to start searching the mail archives to see what I can learn about the history, but a single Bugzilla

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: >> Hi, >> >> let me say a few words on this too: >> >> I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never >> experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped >> me a

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped me a few times to retrieve a document I've had a problem with (such as

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, I step in this interesting thread, for my 2 cents opinion. First I've never heard of an "extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup copy" is checked." Even if I spend much less time on the forum for some

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Max Merbald
Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped me a few times to retrieve a document I've had a problem with (such as losing it for some reason or other. I think

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/12/2015 19:49, Andreas Säger wrote: > When you save another version in foreign file format, the current document should remain the ODF source. That part is a good idea. > Foreign files should be loaded read-only and saved as ODF before editi

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 12/31/2015 11:49 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, let me say a few words on this too: I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the

RE: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 > -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 13:05 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document > with no auto backup copy. > [ ... ] > As an AOO