Richard Detwiler wrote:
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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Im late on this thread but Im with Richard on this. Though Im on Ubuntu
right now, my laptop is XP Pro has has OO3 on it and works perfectly. I
have auto save for every five minutes.
Windows didnt "decide" to reboot. If it was updating in the background
and something said to reboot, you have to allow it. A few cases where
that isnt so. So your system crashed more likely.
The fact that you are griping about developers really screams that you
dont know what youre talking about. OO is very secure and stable and I
install it at businesses and schools all the time.
As was just pointed out by Richard, if you lost hours of work then auto
save probably wasnt set anyway.
You can check the temp file under Documents and Settings/YourAcct and
see if it was in fact auto saving and then retrieve it from there. A
system crash could cause OO to forget what it was working on but
unlikely to loose the document.
Wade
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