Hi :) +1 Hmm, well maybe not the absolute worst. A sieve or broken floppy disc or an ancient format that no program can read might be worse but yes, databases with an audit-trail are much more secure and plain text such as Csv ensure that there will always be some program somewhere that can at least access the data.
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Andreas Säger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 10 August, 2011 13:21:23 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted. Am 10.08.2011 01:46, Simon Cropper wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old spreadsheet in ODS format. The file was originally an XLS > file then converted to ODS format several years ago *and* has been used > weekly over that period without any problems. Since the days of OpenOffice.org 1.0 I use the same dBase file together with Calc data pilots as reporting engine. I'm pretty sure that this file will take another 50,000 records during the next 10 years without any problems. Spreadsheets are the worst data storage, regardless if Excel, ODF or whatever. Even a collection of plain text tables is far better than spreadsheets. -- For 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 -- For 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
