Richard wrote:
I have just had an incident where the OS decided to reboot DURING AN OOo AUTO SAVE PROCEDURE and after reboot I HAVE LOST MY DOCUMENT. What is wrong with the developers cant they fix this damn problem, they do not have a chance in hell of getting ms word people to change, with this type of instability, this really sucks, literally hours of work down the drain AGAIN (note no swearing this time so as not to upset or "sensitive" users).
It sounds like the root cause is your OS "deciding" to reboot. I take it that you have Windows. I also do; for a long time I used Windows XP, now I'm on Windows Vista with a new computer.
In spite of all the negative chatter about Windows OS on this list, I haven't experienced the problem that you just described (nor, really, any other chronic or severe issues). So it sounds to me like something is amiss, but not with OpenOffice, rather with your setup. I'm not enough of a computer expert to know what to suggest, but this doesn't sound like an OpenOffice problem.
A question about your practices of saving documents -- you state that you had literally hours of work down the drain AGAIN. How often do you save your work? I usually save what I'm doing, when I'm actively working on something and making progress, every 5 minutes or so. Just hit Ctrl+S, it takes about half a second. Then, if there is a crash (or my OS "decides" to reboot, which never happens to me), I haven't lost more than 5 minutes of work. Not "hours" of work that you seem to lose, not just once, but multiple times.
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