Has anyone else noticed the difference between the autosave of these two versions (2.0Beta = 1.9.95).
I used to like, in OOo, how when you asked it to autosave every X minutes, it would do just that - save the actual file along with the changes. This is different, and superior (IMHO), to the way that M$ Office where it autosaved 'file recovery' information. With OOo the actual file was saved and you knew when you closed the file it was accurately updated.
I've recently noticed that OOo2.0 Beta has adopted the M$ Office method of dealing with this. The option is now even known as 'auto save file recovery information'. I believe it now does as M$ office does and saves auto recovery information so it can recover the document in the event of a crash.
What is everyones thoughts on this - my opinion is that this is a backwards step - OOo did it a superior way and now we have adopted the M$ way of doing things, in my mind, to OOo's detriment.
My aim will be, depending on support, file an issue/enhancement...
Thoughts / feedback....
/paul
FWIW, on balance, I have to disagree. Assuming the file recovery operation is reliable, this system has at least two advantages I can see.
1. It allows you to abandon an editing session without altering the original file while still providing a level of safety against accidentally losing your work if the app or computer should crash.
2. I find the old system annoying because the keyboard is disabled during the autosave operation. Many times I would be typing along, not looking at the screen only to discover later that a portion of the text was missing because it had autosaved on me. I don't know why there couldn't have been some sort of buffer to prevent that, but there wasn't.
If you attempt to close the file without doing a final save it will throw up a dialog to ask you, so that objection doesn't really hold much water for me.
As far as it being "Microsoftish", I see no reason to do something their way just because it's their way, but I also see no reason to avoid doing that if it is indeed the better way. Coaches and Generals study their opponents constantly and they're not above adopting a strategy of the enemy if it works. It's actually very intelligent to do that.
Rod
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