Re: LibreOffice - any way to recover not saved changes to the file?
On Samstag, 24. September 2022 11:27:24 -04 Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:50:04 +0100
>
> piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> wrote:
> > On 24/09/2022 11:43, Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ wrote:
> > > The problem is: if you enabled it and for some reason the backup
> > > copy cannot be written, LibreOffice also does not write the
> > > original. The warning LibreOffice emits is: "Cannot write backup
> > > copy" but it does not tell you that it will not even write the
> > > original, even if that *could* be written.
> >
> > That's very interesting. Where does backup copy is being written? To
> > the same folder where original supposed to be? Like Kate text editor
> > writes backups as "filename.txt~" in the same folder?
>
> ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/backup/
That's like Camelot - "Let's not go there. It's a silly place."
Under ~/.config there ought to be config files - not backup files. But just
my personal opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ...
>
> Incidentally, it won't hurt to prune those files occasionally.
+1
All the best
Eike
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