On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:58 -0700, Gene & Mary LeDuc wrote: > 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. >
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