2013/6/10 Richard Detwiler <rlsha...@aol.com>: > Girvin R. Herr wrote: >> >> .... > > >> Probably like you, I find the few seconds it takes to save the file >> irritating sometimes, especially since only about one keystroke is saved >> while it is going on. Worse, it seems destined (designed?) to pick a time >> that is the most irritating to me - just as I start something, rarely when I >> am just looking at what I have written and/or thinking about something. >> Better, would be to have the save go on in the background, while one >> continues working. If that is too dangerous, take a snapshot into a >> temporary file and save that - all in the background. One should not even be >> aware that a save is going on in the background. If it really bothers you, >> you can turn the autosave off in the Tools->Options dialog. I also check the >> "Always create backup file" (.bak) in the same dialog. This acts much like >> the old editors and word processors - saving the original before any editing >> takes place. The downside is the risk of losing a whole day's work, and the >> restore after LO crash function. >> Girvin Herr >> >> > > I always have auto-save off for those reasons, and instead I'm in the habit > of very frequently saving the file (which takes about half a second using > Ctrl+S (on Windows, may be different on other operating systems).
I think the time will be more dependent on the contents of your document and the speed of your hardware. When I say several seconds, I am talking about a spreadsheet with thousands of rows and maybe 20-30 columns and 5-10 sheets (not all of them that populated, though). Of course, when working with a smaller document, saving time is not an issue at all. >That way, > the save can happen when I want it to (like when I'm looking at what I've > written or thinking about something ...). > > Also, I don't know if this is the case with auto-save, but when manually > saving, I'm pretty sure that things can not be "undone" prior to the save. > If this is indeed the case with auto-save, this is another very good reason > not to use it. You may have done something you really want to undo, but if > the auto-save happens, you can't. (Again, I'm not positive whether this is > the case with auto-save like with manual save, but I'm guessing it may be.) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
