+1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 13:05 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: <DKIM> Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document > with no auto backup copy. > [ ... ] > As an AOO user, I would sadly miss the ability to directly edit foreign > file formats - they are often effectively the interchange format for > collaborations. I want to see ASAP if I am using some formatting that > cannot be preserved in the file's primary format. > > I suspect I am not the only user who would go with LibreOffice if it > allows me to edit MS-Word documents directly and OpenOffice does not. > > > Another misconception is that too many users believe that the "backup" > > feature of their office suite ensures a reasonable level of data > safety. > > In fact they never run any backup utility at all. > > > > The term "backup" should be avoided alltogether in favour of "crash > > recovery". Can we really assure that our crash recovery tool works > with > > all supported file formats including the foreign ones? > > I strongly agree that the feature AOO should be providing is "crash > recovery" not "backup". > > I would think some good general design principles, such as never > deleting a file until after its replacement has been completely written, > should make it possible to support all file formats. However, I have not > yet studied the issue, and there may be barriers I am not aware of. > > Isn't a lot of this the sort of information that should be being > collected in Bugzilla. I am about to start searching the mail archives > to see what I can learn about the history, but a single Bugzilla number > would be more convenient. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
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