On Samstag, 24. September 2022 11:27:24 -04 Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:50:04 +0100 > > piorunz <pior...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On 24/09/2022 11:43, Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ wrote: > > > The problem is: if you enabled it and for some reason the backup > > > copy cannot be written, LibreOffice also does not write the > > > original. The warning LibreOffice emits is: "Cannot write backup > > > copy" but it does not tell you that it will not even write the > > > original, even if that *could* be written. > > > > That's very interesting. Where does backup copy is being written? To > > the same folder where original supposed to be? Like Kate text editor > > writes backups as "filename.txt~" in the same folder? > > ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/backup/
That's like Camelot - "Let's not go there. It's a silly place." Under ~/.config there ought to be config files - not backup files. But just my personal opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ... > > Incidentally, it won't hurt to prune those files occasionally. +1 All the best Eike