On 02/07/2008 04:18 AM, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: > 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 which seemed to be about a week out of date.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
I don't think there is a way to shut off document recovery, but you can select cancel (I think that's the button) on the recovery window and OOo will not try to 'recover' the doc. As to your other problem (hours of editing disappearing), the problem is most likely related to #1 below. Here is a way to prevent that from occuring: 1. Change your temp path to something other than your /tmp directory. The contents of your /tmp directory typically will be deleted on reboot, and relevant tmp files related to a program will be deleted when you close that program. You closed the program (in this case forced the close), so any files the program had stored in your /tmp folder would have been deleted when the program closed - including your existing edits. That is an OS 'feature' and is the same on linux as well. So, having the program save the tmp files in a nonvolatile directory/folder will prevent that from happening in the future. Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths|Temporary files| click on 'Edit' and change that to something else. I generally create a OOotmp directory/folder in my documents folder so it's easy to find should something crash. 2. Set to autobackup & modify AutoRecovery time. Tools|Options|Load/Save|General click 'Always create a backup copy' and set the AutoRecovery to 5 minutes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
