James Knott wrote:
> 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.
>
As am I, and I really hate getting into the concept of "protecting
people from themselves" by automatically saving work whether or not it
is that important. I do all sorts of free writing that I never really
want to save in the first place. The only reason why I would see this
as an option is for those who advocate the use of OpenOffice. If you
are trying to get people to adopt a new product, you don't want to put
that many barriers to entry in their way. That sometimes means making
things easier than they would be on another office suite (such as
Microsoft Office). I'd think an option like "Require save upon creation
of a new document" might help those of us who are absent-minded enough
to go several hours on our own without saving. It may not completely
win people over on that feature alone, but it's a start.
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