Wade Smart wrote:
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.
Same here. I've had some autorecovery issues, mostly with looping trying
to recover until I tell it not to try. But the bug that was fixed about
autorecovery was that OOo did not use the saved autorecovery info, but
instead reverted to the last manually saved version. That's totally
unrelated to the OP's problem, in spite of his assertion that hte
developers can't fix the autorecovery 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.
Right! Anybody who has had multiple serious data losses, but still
doesn't save frequently, is really asking for trouble. Chances are
either the OP's system is misconfigured (for example, without having
enough swap space to handle task switching) or unstable (disk errors, or
whatever), or he is running some other application that is causing crashes.
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.
The option really isn't for an autosave (i.e., saving the file in
progress as if a manual save had been done). Instead, it saves
autorecovery information, which is then used to attempt recovery of the
file when OOo regains control. IMO, a true autosave would be much
preferable. There doesn't seem to be a way to specify that, if I
understand the option to always save backups. That's actually another
action triggered by a manual save, to keep the old saved copy when
saving the new version in its place, right?
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
I don't think any autosaved data would actually be a saved version of
the complete file (see above). If OOo can't use its autorecovery data
(because it's incomplete or corrupted due to a crash), there probably is
no recovery possible.
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