I've had the same issue in versions before 2.2.1. Had even found a method to
reproduce that :
- Take a document, Autosave occurs now
- Continue modification of this document
- Manually save the document
- Manually kill OOo (via task manager) before next Autosave
- Restart OOo
- Compare the file you've manually saved with the recovered one (note that they both have the same name IIRC).
But could not reproduce it. However, I confirm that on my Ubuntu box (was 2.2.1
at that time), the autorecovery file in the /backup folder sometimes remained
after a manual save instead of being removed.
Hagar
Le 07.02.2008 13:18, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers a écrit :
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about a week out of date.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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