Hi :) Both things happen. Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting down when asked to. It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open documents. If you did have an open document then it will often tend to have a problem and want you to "recover" it even if you dealt with those error pop-ups neatly during shut-down. Neither thing always happens but one or the other or both do happen fairly often.
I once shut-down halfway through writing something in a Gnu&Linux, got a brief warning that i ignored and it quickly timed out and continued with the shut-down. Then i installed a completely different gnu&linux over the top of my OS and opened the text-editor to find it reopened the unsaved text-file with only a few words missing. Sadly it was a very unimportant note and i've not repeated the experiment because it's too risky to do stuff like that. It shouldn't work so it was quite a surprise. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David Nelson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 10:41:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you suggesting that if you log out of or shut down Windows when you have > some component part of Microsoft Office 2010 open then it will just abort > and complain next time it is opened? Are you joking? Even if you have an > unsaved document open, Word (or whatever) - being closed by Windows - will > challenge you to save or discard your changes. You may have a good reason > to choose your operating system and application software, but made-up > stories about others is not. It will not *abort*, but the next time Word, for instance, opens you will definitely be prompted to check whether you want to recover the last doc(s) you were working on, even if you carefully saved the doc(s) before ending your last session. Try it and see. Microsoft Office and LibreOffice function fairly similarly from this viewpoint, and it does help to prevent data loss when crashes or accidents happen. BTW, I am *not* getting into a "Word versus Writer stand-off" here... :-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
