On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:10:33 +0100 Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> Am 12/30/2015 04:44 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > > +1 > > > > This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with people > > who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience with > > tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs in > > operating systems and prototypes of cache coherent multiprocessor > > servers, so I'm not scared of them. > > > > Now getting AOO to build on Windows 8.1...... > > great, this is indeed one of our most anoying bugs. If there is a way to > fix it, please try to help here. I could think of changing the order of > files that get written on AOO shutdown. > > Marcus As I see it, because registrymodifications.xcu lists the "history" of OpenOffice's activity, it should (must?) be written as the last file in closedown. There are historic reasons (limited disk space?) for the automatic backup setting not to be checked; with modern disk sizes I doubt that this is now valid and we should change that setting to cause automatic backup by default in future releases. This is an aside, and I don't wish it to distract from the main problem: I have a particular case where I have to switch off the "automatic backup" setting. I have two NAS devices - an Iomega Home media device and a Buffalo Linkstation. I normally save my work in progress to the Buffalo; it will not save if the automatic backup is enabled. It will save to the Iomega no matter what the setting. As far as I can see, file access rights are identical for both devices and I just work around the problem by making manual timed/dated backups as part of my normal procedure. Rory > > > > On 12/29/2015 6:33 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> It sounds like that is what we should be working on, if we continue to > >> offer the option. > >> > >> Is there a Bugzilla # on this? > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 11:08 > >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > >>> Subject: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto > >>> backup copy. > >>> > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> On 26/12/2015 15:55, Bill M 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. :( > >>> > >>> a) There is an extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible > >>> bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup > >>> copy" is checked. This bug both destroys data, and prevents the backup > >>> copy from being made. > >>> > >>> b) Manually saving the file is superior to automated backup, precisely > >>> one can save it to different folders, and thus rollback to earlier > >>> states is possible. (I'm deliberately ignoring OoSVN here.) > >>> > >>> jonathon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
