Pueblo Native wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Pueblo Native wrote:
This has been inspired by a couple of posts I saw on here, if nobody
knows of one, I'll start working on it, but I'd hate to duplicate
somebody else's work. I've been thinking of an extension that would
automatically force the saving of a document upon creation no matter how
much information has been saved to it. I saw one post on here where
somebody worked for three hours before losing everything. Maybe this
wouldn't help, but what if you had an extension or a setting where every
time you opened OpenOffice, the document would save ("MyDoc".odt for
word processing, and so forth) without you typing a name. Maybe this is
just out there, if this can be accomplished in the settings I'd love to
know how.
Autosave is already in OO. You just have to enable it. You can also
enable back up copies.
Will autosave work if you haven't done an explicit save yet?
I haven't verified it one way or the other. However, as I understand
it, it saves your changes, whether you've saved or not, but it doesn't
save it with your file name. It simply preserves the data for recovery
in a temp file.
When I create a document, the first thing I do, is a save as, with the
file name, even before I start entering the data, so I never have the
situation, where there hasn't been at least one save. I'm also in the
habit of saving at interval.
One thing that was interesting, was watching the automatic recovery on a
VAX. One day at work, several years ago, I was creating a large
document on the VAX at work, when the system failed. After it came back
up, I watched, as the editor replayed all my keystrokes, including
errors and corrections!
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