I think Dia has autosave. Does not autosave enabled by default?

2010/10/13 Octavio Alvarez <alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org>

> Hello, Sergio. I inter-post my replies.
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:04:19 -0700, Sergio Alarcón Cabrera <
> s.alarcon_655601...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, when I was about to end, the program mysteriously stopped working and
>> a windows window was appeared telling that the program stopped working, the
>> unic thing I could do was close the program. Well... I feel bad because I
>> was working about 45 minutes, but.... few days after, today I woke up early
>> because I had to do a very hard homework... so, I ended the work a few
>> minutes ago... The surprise appeared when, I (with a very big smile because
>> I did the work in only 3 or 4 hours) went to the kitchen for a glass of
>> colacao, and to return to the room... The same window of the other day was
>> appeared... The dia program was closed without reason. I kill... really... I
>> kill somebody... All the work of the morning destroyed... My 4 hours
>> wasted...
>>
>
> First of all, thank you for bringing it up to the mailing list.
> Furthermore,
> thank you for being so respectful while doing so, even after having some of
> your time thrown out the window.
>
> I can assure you your case is very particular. I use it on a daily basis
> without any crash, and most people on this list do too.
>
> Aside from other suggestions already given in other replies (particularly
> to
> "continuously save"), I would like to ask you to be patient, if you may,
> and
> help the Dia developers fix this case for you. In order to fix it, we need
> to pinpoint the faulty code first. This is not an easy task, as you may
> have
> already learned from your studies.
>
> Unfortunately, the community doesn't know your particular setup. The only
> thing we know is that you use Windows 7 and run 0.97 or Dia for Windows and
> that it crashed "apparently out of nothing". Think of it this way: if it
> works for most of us in a "standard" environment, what do you consider
> particular in your setup that could confuse Dia? Network drives, untypical
> anti-virus program, limited or full-privilege user account, a faulty
> device,
> etc. Were you doing something in particular? Printing? Can you find a
> pattern
> in both of your crash cases? Were you doing E-R work both times?
>
> Will, it sounds like Dia crashed, but to be sure, you should provide with
> as
> many information as possible from the error you got. I don't know if
> Windows
> can provide with a crash log with a full backtrace, which is the usual tool
> to get feedback for crash cases. Oh, and the exact, full error message it
> threw back to you while crashing would be useful too.
>
> If your Windows version is in Spanish, try to translate it for us. If it is
> not possible, send it to me, and I can translate it for you, but leave that
> as a last-resort option.
>
>
> I would love to receive your response. Have a nice week, Sergio Alarcón.
>>
>
> We hope to hear back from you, too. I hope you try 0.97.1 and really hope
> your bug is fixed there.
>
>
> --
> Octavio.
>
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