On Sunday 04 Oct 2015 19:02:45 Brian Barker wrote: > At 17:54 04/10/2015 +0100, you wrote: > >How is the autosave supposed to work? > > Slightly differently from how you imagine, it seems.
so it would seem. i assumed that it had always saved the file in the past. > >I've got my set to save every 4 minutes so i rarely press "Save". > > I'm not sure that makes any sense. First, the time setting is > basically for saving AutoRecovery information, which is not the same > as saving the document. Do you have "Automatically save the document > too" ticked? If not, your document file will not be being updated and > you will need to save the document periodically. I thought that was the save the document as i'm sure that what it used to be. i don't have "Automatically save the document too" question anywhere on the "Load/Save/General" options page > > >I just had a situation where i have made some changes, left the > >machine for an hour or so without saving or closing, ... > > This is probably unwise, of course. A power surge or power outage > could cause problems, as could mistaken behaviour by another person, > an error by you when you returned, or many other things. Hopefully > you would normally at least save the document explicitly before > taking the break. i will do in future until i work out how to use the autosave > >... came back to the machine and closed Writer. It didn't ask me to > >save but it crashed as it closed. I reloaded it and selected the > >file that was open to be recovered. It recovered the file but an > >older version of it, should it not have recovered the contents that > >were on the screen that should have been autosaved every 4 minutes > >during that hour the document was still open? > > I suspect probably not. I'm guessing, but I don't see it as obvious > that either the AutoRecovery information or the file itself would be > saved every four minutes if - as would be the case - no changes had > been made. So possibly only one save would be made after you last > made a change. it certainly didn't as it was not autosaving the whole document. > o If you do not have "Automatically save the document too" ticked, where is this question in the Options? > the crash must have occurred before you were challenged to save the > document. The recovery information would refer to a point somewhat > before you last saved the document - so not including the most recent > edits. Solution: save the document before taking your meal break. > > o If you do have "Automatically save the document too" ticked, you > will have a perfect version of the document in its original location > and have no need for the recovery information. Solution: either > reject the recovery process or accept it but do not save the result > over the existing file; either discard it or else save it as a > separate file (under a new name). Reopen the original document for > the current version. > > >And.. why does the copy and paste work ... > > Why does copy and paste work? Er, it's meant to! Do you perhaps mean > why does it *not* work? > > >... where you use the mouse to highlight and paste it? It works with > >ctrl-c, ctrl-v ok. > > Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are only how you paste after you have selected the > relevant text to copy and potentially to replace, of course. What > other method are you referring to? (There are many techniques.) Edit on the linux desktop, you can highlight the text with the mouse and just paste it somewhere else with a button click, no need to ctrl-c, ctrl-v > | Copy and Edit | Paste (and so on) should work. So should > > right-click | Copy and right-click | Paste. Or do you mean something > using a third mouse button that your operating system supplies (or > fails to)? There is some suggestion on the web that the paste > function works but not the copy one for some versions of LibreOffice. yep, its been working randomly over the years. > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker - privately -- To unsubscribe 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
