After reading about the new <sarcasm>autotrash</sarcasm> feature, I decided to do what I have done for years with many applications.
Any time there is a pause in work or I am just staring idly out the window, press Ctrl-s to save. These are tech. comms students and the assignment is to write a short procedural manual. Part of the grader's job is to revise and edit the assignment just as a technical editor would in the real world, plus add explanatory comments.
So there I am religiously grading these student assignments, incorporating edits, inserting Notes, etc. and pressing Ctrl-s. Then OOo 3.0 crashes and offers to autorecover, which I accept gladly. Result: goodbye, farewell, toodle-oo 2.5 hours of work.
Because the @#$%^&*+ OOo recovered from its last *autosave*, whenever that was, not MY last manual save.
Does anybody have a workaround for this very severe bug? I thought I had by refusing the autorecovery and saving the affected files to another location, as not much seems to be lost, but then that went bad for me one day, too.
This is a huge disappointment because in release 3.0 OOo really came of age. Regards, Hedley P.S. By request, no flowers. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
