I have used OOo since version 1.0, and love it, but I must admit, this
document recovery feature has caused me some grief tonight.
I have a long list of things to do before going to bed and one of them was
to send off a purchase order (PO) to one of my suppliers. A quick and easy
job, as the PO was already prepared and saved, about 5 mins work - little
did I know it would end up taking hours and result in me having to re-do
most of my evenings OOo work. My PO form is a Calc spreadsheet. I went to
File>Send>E-mail as PDF, and it froze on me, but that is another issue, not
what I am complaining about.
I had to go into Windows XP task manager and "End Now" all the "Not
responding" programs, which were all the instances of OOo ... everything
else was running fine.
After doing that, when I went to use OOo again, to have another go at
sending my PO, the document recovery console appeared and I thought: "Yes,
why not", and recovered my documents (the purchase order and two others,
including my Things To Do list (TTD list)). To my shock and horror, several
hours of editing had disappeared from my TTD list, and the final changes to
the PO were missing also. Fortunately, I am one of those people who save
frequently when editing or composing a document, so I saved my 'recovered'
documents under different names and then loaded the copies I had saved under
their original names, before the crash. I lost some of my editing work, but
the originals were ever so much more up to date than the recovered versions
which seemed to be about a week out of date.
Is there any way of switching document recovery OFF?
I think I would be much safer without it.
Many thanks,
James
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