Thank you for that clarification Brian. I have often wondered about what
happens with autosave and suspected that it was non permanent but wasn't
sure.Alan Pearce
-------- Original message --------
From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com.INVALID>
Date: 16/07/2020 03:25 (GMT+00:00)
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Saving documents (was: Perhaps UPSs should be used ...]
At 16:56 14/07/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:>It is also important to save all
documents on a regular basis.True.>Tools > Options > Load/Save > General has
options that will you >should consider using. Just make sure to limit the
number of minutes to 4 of 5.Useful though this facility is, it is important
that readers are not misled by this suggestion. Like all sensible applications,
OpenOffice saves document files only when the user asks for this to happen -
using Save or Save As or by selecting Save from the options provided when a
modified document is closed without having been saved. This is important, so
that a user may choose, after a period of editing, to abandon all changes and
close the document or session without modifying the original document.The
option at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General | Save | Save AutoRecovery
information every ... Minutes has another purpose. If it is ticked, information
about the current editing session is salted away regularly - but separately
from the actual document file. This information is deleted automatically if a
session is terminated normally. Its purpose is instead to deal with program or
system crashes or power outages. In these circumstances an offer is made, when
OpenOffice is next started, to recover editing changes made in the aborted
session as far as possible.Brian Barker
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