Re: LibreOffice - any way to recover not saved changes to the file?
On Samstag, 24. September 2022 00:11:01 -04 piorunz wrote:
> On 24/09/2022 01:38, Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ wrote:
> > did you realize that, if the backup copy fails for any reason, also
> > the document cannot be saved and thus *all* work is lost? I
> > experienced this behaviour recently to my dismay (not to say
> > anger).
>
> I never used Backup copy feature, I just enabled it. Its doing no
> harm, right? I never relied on this feature because I never used it.
>
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.
All the best
Eike
> I intend to rely on normal file save as a first thing, then on
> built-in recovery in case of reboots (I use Debian Testing and these
> happens when GPU driver freezes, LibreOffice always recover opened
> files without fail). As a third thing and last thing I will rely on
> backup copy feature which I never used.
> Additionally, selected important files are synced via SyncThing with
> one year of versioning history.
>
> > So beware: If you get the warning that the backup copy cannot be
> > written, then save your document in another way. E.g. ctrl-a and
> > paste it into an editor or whatever so at least you have your text
> > safe even without the formatting and whatnot.
> >
> > This is a very silly behaviour of LibreOffice. If the backup copy
> > cannot be written but the document can be written - why not at
> > least save the document before closing the LibreOffice Writer?
>
> Thanks for your advice, I will keep that in mind, although I never
> experienced read-only tmp folder or LibreOffice being unable to save
> file.
> > After this experience I disabled backup copies because it is even
> > more dangerous than working without backup copies. The reasons why
> > backup copies sometimes cannot be written is very obscure. It seems
> > to be a hickup of KDE which affects LibreOffice because similar
> > things happen sometimes with Okular which sometimes is unable to
> > write its tmp files.
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> With kindest regards, Piotr.
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