On 11/27/2008 01:55 AM, Hedley Finger wrote: > 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.
Fixed: http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1461 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92968 [note: I've not (yet) requested a hotfix via the release list but will shortly] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
