On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:13:56PM +0100, Brian Barker wrote: > At 16:41 26/05/2009 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> I use a backup program to automatically backup my document folder >> every ten minutes which contains a few OO spreadsheets and I found >> that although I set the "auto save recovery information every 5 >> minutes", and I can see every 5 minutes OO would save my spreadsheet, >> when I check the timestamp of the file, it is still half an hour ago >> though I did lots edit on it already in the last half an hour. >> >> I am using OO 3.1.0 in debian sid. > > This is the setting at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General | Save | > Save AutoRecovery information every XX Minutes. But this doesn't, I > think, save your document at all: the document file has not been changed > and it is appropriate, therefore, that the time stamp his not changed > either. Indeed, until you save your document manually you can still > chose to abandon your edits without saving - so the document file needs > not to have been changed.
This makes a lot of sense, yes If I don't manually save, I can undo edits. > > The help text says that the setting "saves the information needed to > restore all open documents in case of a crash". So it saves information > elsewhere that can recover the document at the state it was as you were > editing it, partly from the unchanged document file and partly from the > separately saved recovery information. This information is saved > elsewhere than in your documents - in more than one place your user > profile, it seems. You will need to back up the appropriate folders > there too if you wish to save this recovery information. > > I trust this helps. Sure, this helped me understand this problem which is puzzling me for a long time. > > Brian Barker Thank you so much, -- Zhengquan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
