I believe it is even more important to configure the OO Preferences for "Save AutoRecovery Information". In all the years I've used OO, I've never had a crash where OO was unable to recover up to, or very close to, the point of failure. Since I do have a UPS, the crashes I have experienced are all due to failures of the OS or the application. A UPS will not protect you from these failures, but in my experience the recovery information will.
Having said that, I imagine that it *may* be possible for a power outage that occurs while OO is saving the recovery info to corrupt the recovery info and prevent OO from restoring a file. Not a likely event, but something to consider. My $0.02. On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:29 AM Thomas A. Panfil <tapan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Steven, > > Your advice is perfect for a proper shutdown of a computer, BUT, > those good practices are PRECISELY what do not occur if a power outage > occurs while someone is using a computer which does not have a battery > backup. Laptops have a built-in battery backup. Desktop and tower > machines and workstations do not have integral battery backup so they > are subject to sudden improper shutdown. > > I am convinced that users of AOO should be advised to use an > external battery backup system for computers which do not have integral > battery backup. This advice should be provided along with the > information about how to download and install AOO. Users should be > given this advice BEFORE a catastrophe occurs. > > I've been reading essentially all of the OpenOffice, now Apache > Open Office, Users E-Mail. It seems that a large proportion of serious > problems, from which recovery might be very difficult or impossible, are > attributed to improper, i.e. hasty, shut down. That is exactly what > happens when AC Line power to a vulnerable computer is lost. > > -- Tom Panfil > > > On 7/14/20 3:45 PM, Steven Ahlers wrote: > > Tom that’s an interesting idea. I would suggest an even more important > concept, practice good computer hygiene: before you leave your computer > save all documents, shut down all programs. Then if there is a power > failure no problem. I would recommend clearing out browser memory (history, > cookies, etc.) you can bookmark websites and use a password manager to > easily return to websites on restart. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Jul 14, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Tom Panfil <tapan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> > >> Hello AOO Users & Advisors, > >> > >> For years I've routinely read reports from Open Office Users about > various problems. Many are generally attributed to having shut down one's > computer too quickly, before shut down processes have been completed. > >> > >> I've used OO and AOO for many years, both on Windows based computers > and on MacBook Pros. I've never experienced *this* type of problem. I > attribute that good fortune to three things: > >> > >> * Use of Uninterruptible Power Supplies with Desktop Computers. > >> * Use of Laptop Computers which have immunity to power loss due to > >> their internal batteries. > >> * Very deliberate shut down processes: > >> o Quit the Running Applications (at least all which involve my > >> user data) > >> o Log out of whatever LogIn Accounts have been in use (generally > >> just one) > >> o Shutdown the computer > >> > >> I think that AC Power Failures which cause sudden shutdowns are the > cause of many AOO Problems. > >> > >> Should the AOO Installation site STRONGLY recommend the use of > Uninterruptible power Supplies with non-laptop computers? > >> > >> Users might be unhappy with paying for UPSes, but they are a small > expense relative to the pain of serious data loss and corruption of > profiles. > >> > >> -- > >> *v/r, > >> Tom Panfil > >> eBureaucrat (Ret.) > >> ******************************************** > >> Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR > >> drivers to identify their corporate sponsors > >> ******************************************** > >> **m-2015-mbp-15******general_user*******fm** * > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >
