Re: LibreOffice - any way to recover not saved changes to the file?
On Freitag, 23. September 2022 09:28:12 -04 piorunz wrote:
> On 13/09/2022 20:47, Juan R.D. Silva wrote:
> > I was pissed off to find out that autosave is desabled by default. I
> > used not to care. Looks like now I want to enable it. 😄
>
> Same! I just realized that AutoRecovery is disabled by default, and
> backup copy feature is also disabled by default. Now I enabled them.
>
> But one feature which is built in regardless of these two options is
> to recover after crash/reboot, this always worked without touching
> any options. Now I have triple defences, built in recovery,
> AutoRecovery every 10 minutes and backup copy. :)
>
>
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Hi Piotr,
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).
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?
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.
With kind regards
Eike
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