Adam Lafayette wrote:
What happened is today I had to turn off my computer
(running Windows 2000) without shutting down. Windows
locked up on me. When I did this I had a file open in
OO.org. When I turned the computer back on and logged
in a OO.org opened a window and asked me if I wanted
to recover the file that had been open when my machine
locked up. I said alright, clicked next and finish
and it brought my file back up in good shape.
I've never seen an office program do that before.
Word 97 does this if the autosave option is checked. Actually, this is
something I liked better in Office than in OO. Word creates a temp file
that it saves your work to every 10 minutes (default), but it doesn't
write anything to the file you opened until you tell it to. OO
autosaves your changes to the file you opened. I like to open an old
version of a document, make my changes, then do a Save As to save the
new version to a new file. If you spend more than a few minutes making
your changes, then OO autosaves into the open file and your old version
is gone. With OO I have to remember to do the Save As to the new file
as soon as I open the old version so that autosaves go into the new file
instead of the old.
Also, Word doesn't open the autosaved file until you start Word again;
it sounds like you're saying that OO does it when you login to Windows
again.
I don't know whether the other Office pieces (Excel, et al) do this or
not, but I would assume that they have the same behavior as Word.
Regards,
Gene
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