On 24/09/2022 01:38, Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ wrote:
did you realize that, if the backup copy fails for any reason, also the document cannot be saved and thus *all* work is lost? I experienced this behaviour recently to my dismay (not to say anger).
I never used Backup copy feature, I just enabled it. Its doing no harm, right? I never relied on this feature because I never used it. I intend to rely on normal file save as a first thing, then on built-in recovery in case of reboots (I use Debian Testing and these happens when GPU driver freezes, LibreOffice always recover opened files without fail). As a third thing and last thing I will rely on backup copy feature which I never used. Additionally, selected important files are synced via SyncThing with one year of versioning history.
So beware: If you get the warning that the backup copy cannot be written, then save your document in another way. E.g. ctrl-a and paste it into an editor or whatever so at least you have your text safe even without the formatting and whatnot. This is a very silly behaviour of LibreOffice. If the backup copy cannot be written but the document can be written - why not at least save the document before closing the LibreOffice Writer?
Thanks for your advice, I will keep that in mind, although I never experienced read-only tmp folder or LibreOffice being unable to save file.
After this experience I disabled backup copies because it is even more dangerous than working without backup copies. The reasons why backup copies sometimes cannot be written is very obscure. It seems to be a hickup of KDE which affects LibreOffice because similar things happen sometimes with Okular which sometimes is unable to write its tmp files.
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