Public bug reported:
I was applying a conditional format to a range including several hundred
cells when libreoffice Calc froze and then crashed. When I reopened
libreoffice, it asked if I wanted to recover several files. I knew
something was wrong because some of the files it asked to recover had
been closed over an hour before the crash while other files that had
been open were not on the list of recovered files. I clicked "ok" to
recover, and the file I had been working on when it crashed was a
version at least 2 hours old. I closed it without saving and opened the
same file but the version I had saved myself and found the version I had
saved around 15 minutes earlier. I similarly closed another Writer file
that I discovered was missing a lot of my updates and opened the one I
had saved to disk, finding that it only lacked a couple of my changes I
had made in the past few minutes.
So the bottom line is that the autosave files were at least two hours
old, even though I had manually saved both files numerous times in the
mean time. If I had saved the autosaved file, I would have overwritten
at least 2 hours worth of work. Although the crash had to do with Calc,
the antequated backup files included both Writer and Calc files. I have
my autosave options set to save once every 2 minutes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libreoffice 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 29 21:46:19 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-24 (217 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386
(20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (4 days ago)
** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 raring
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174595
Title:
Autosave recovers a backup file several hours old after Calc-related
crash
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I was applying a conditional format to a range including several
hundred cells when libreoffice Calc froze and then crashed. When I
reopened libreoffice, it asked if I wanted to recover several files. I
knew something was wrong because some of the files it asked to recover
had been closed over an hour before the crash while other files that
had been open were not on the list of recovered files. I clicked "ok"
to recover, and the file I had been working on when it crashed was a
version at least 2 hours old. I closed it without saving and opened
the same file but the version I had saved myself and found the version
I had saved around 15 minutes earlier. I similarly closed another
Writer file that I discovered was missing a lot of my updates and
opened the one I had saved to disk, finding that it only lacked a
couple of my changes I had made in the past few minutes.
So the bottom line is that the autosave files were at least two hours
old, even though I had manually saved both files numerous times in the
mean time. If I had saved the autosaved file, I would have overwritten
at least 2 hours worth of work. Although the crash had to do with
Calc, the antequated backup files included both Writer and Calc files.
I have my autosave options set to save once every 2 minutes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libreoffice 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 29 21:46:19 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-24 (217 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386
(20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (4 days ago)
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