+1 I also think it is important to distinguish auto-save and the related auto-recovery from keeping a backup.
Automatically keeping a backup involves not writing over the document that was opened, usually by renaming the original in some manner, and not intruding on normal operation. Backing up a document that is opened for editing is simple, efficient, and difficult to have fail. It should deal with the commonly reported cases of corrupted saves on shutdowns/interruptions and also when one notices that they have done something horrible in the editing. This is not intrusive on editing but does assume enough disk capacity, something AOO appears to need anyhow. I have all manner of document editors that do this automatically. Keeping a backup and/or auto-save/-recovery also don't satisfy the need for revision control, although I notice the built-in backup machinery of Windows 10 dates the changed files it detects and backs up, providing for retention of multiple versions. Having backup to the cloud as well is also increasingly available on modern platforms, and OpenOffice doesn't have to do anything about it. I suspect that Macintosh users also have sufficient resources on the platform. Folks who do extensive edits without introducing their own intermediate backups of work-in-progress will probably not be saved by anything that AOO can do automatically that does not introduce risks of its own, risks we should not be the source of. Safe practices and ways to have support from available platform services might merit some Wiki pages though. - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 08:32 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto > backup copy. > > On 12/29/2015 1:50 AM, FR web forum wrote: > >> I did find in options that in Options\Load Save\General “Always > create a > >> backup copy” was not checked. This should be checked by default. :( > > > > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=104879 > > You can vote for this enhancement > > Although I agree with the enhancement, and have voted for it, I do not > think the automatic backup should be the only protection for a long and > difficult to reproduce document. It would be better to put it under > revision control, and have offsite backups. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
