Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread toki
On 25/11/16 22:39, John Hart wrote: > Automatic saving of a file every 'n' minutes, and creating an automatic backup file aren't the same thing. As far as I can determine, AOo considers thatto be two different actions, done in two different ways. >If automatic saving uses the same file name, it

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread John Hart
On 11/25/2016 5:41 AM, Robert Funnell wrote: Choose whether to enable AutoRecovery and how often to save the information used by the AutoRecovery process. AutoRecovery in OpenOffice.org overwrites the original file. If you have also chosen Always create backup copy, the original file then ove

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread John Hart
On 11/25/2016 2:00 AM, Brian Barker wrote: I'm sure implementing the facilities actually took far longer than it took you to complain - falsely - that they are not there, in fact. But it was done nevertheless. And you cannot write into an application such as OpenOffice total protection against

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 25/11/2016 à 10:00, Brian Barker a écrit : At 23:17 24/11/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: I use an editor written twenty years ago for technical work. It automatically saves what you're working on every five minutes in a scratch file so if something goes wrong, you won't lose your changes. Y

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread Robert Funnell
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, James Knott wrote: ... AOO supports both backup copies and autorecovery. ... That's true, but the support could be more robust. I found this for AOO 3: << Save AutoRecovery information every Choose whether to enable AutoRecovery and how often to save the information us

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread James Knott
On 11/25/2016 01:17 AM, John Hart wrote: > On 11/23/2016 4:36 PM, Doug wrote: >> Take "extraordinary"--and the line I quoted says this is a PROBLEM >> known for some time; therefore presumably there is a way to solve it >> but nobody >> has bothered. And yes, I am careful, but nobody's perfect. OT

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 06:30 25/11/2016 -0600, Doug McGarrett wrote: That sounds like a good editor to use. what's the name of it, and what OS does it work on? It's called "OpenOffice" - and it runs on a wide range of operating systems. Brian Barker

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:17 24/11/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: I use an editor written twenty years ago for technical work. It automatically saves what you're working on every five minutes in a scratch file so if something goes wrong, you won't lose your changes. You mean just like OpenOffice does? See Tools | O

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-24 Thread Doug
On 11/25/2016 12:17 AM, John Hart wrote: On 11/23/2016 4:36 PM, Doug wrote: Take "extraordinary"--and the line I quoted says this is a PROBLEM known for some time; therefore presumably there is a way to solve it but nobody has bothered. And yes, I am careful, but nobody's perfect. OTOH, I do

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-24 Thread John Hart
On 11/23/2016 4:36 PM, Doug wrote: Take "extraordinary"--and the line I quoted says this is a PROBLEM known for some time; therefore presumably there is a way to solve it but nobody has bothered. And yes, I am careful, but nobody's perfect. OTOH, I don't know why anyone would shut off their co

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-23 Thread Doug
On 11/23/2016 01:25 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 21:01 22/11/2016 -0600, Doug Noname wrote: On 11/22/2016 02:28 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: Indeed, this is a problem known for quite some times. IMHO the most critical one. But nothing done yet about that. Very often, it is linked to power shortage d

Re: My entire novel was replaced with hash[marks]

2016-11-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:01 22/11/2016 -0600, Doug Noname wrote: On 11/22/2016 02:28 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: Indeed, this is a problem known for quite some times. IMHO the most critical one. But nothing done yet about that. Very often, it is linked to power shortage during the save operation. *"Indeed, this is