On Sat 24 Sep 2022 at 06:43:03 (-0400), Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ wrote: > On Samstag, 24. September 2022 00:11:01 -04 piorunz wrote: > > 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. > > > 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.
It's odd: virtually all the software I use (eg emacs, gnumeric, inkscape, even mutt) modifies either the title bar or a status bar as soon as I make any modification of a document (typically an asterisk), and removes it if I revert the change, or save it. I can't see any such indication in LO, and I did try reverting a change to one cell in a spreadsheet, and when I quit with ^Q, it asked if I wanted to Save the document even though it was unaltered. Not being a DE user, I don't know whether this is typical of software more closely associated with DEs. Is the feature missed by users? Cheers, David.