At my age, I can't be trusted to remember to save it with enough
frequency to be beneficial, so I'd rather "suffer" the few moments'
delay rather than lose several hours of work which has happened to me in
other apps that don't have such a feature.
Dale Erwin
Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03
Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU
http://leather.casaerwin.org
On 6/9/2013 7:16 PM, Richard Detwiler wrote:
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). 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.)
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