On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:12:14 +0100 Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> Am 12/30/2015 11:32 AM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:10:33 +0100 > > Marcus<marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > > > >> Am 12/30/2015 04:44 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > >>> +1 > >>> > >>> This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with people > >>> who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience with > >>> tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs in > >>> operating systems and prototypes of cache coherent multiprocessor > >>> servers, so I'm not scared of them. > >>> > >>> Now getting AOO to build on Windows 8.1...... > >> > >> great, this is indeed one of our most anoying bugs. If there is a way to > >> fix it, please try to help here. I could think of changing the order of > >> files that get written on AOO shutdown. > >> > >> Marcus > > > > As I see it, because registrymodifications.xcu lists the "history" of > > OpenOffice's activity, it should (must?) be written as the last file in > > closedown. > > of course this needs to be analyzed in detail if it's possible to change > the order for file saving. > > > There are historic reasons (limited disk space?) for the automatic backup > > setting not to be checked; with modern disk sizes I doubt that this is now > > valid and we should change that setting to cause automatic backup by > > default in future releases. > > Limited disk space must be indeed an old reason we shouldn't take into > account nowadays. But as you wrote "reasons", do you know any more? > > Marcus > We forget how computers have speeded up since microcomputers were invented, with faster hard disk transfer, use of hardware and software write buffers, so in the distant past it might have been reasonable to omit "unnecessary" disk access to improve the response of OpenOffice, which has never been noted for lightning speed. But this is just a guess. Rory > > > >>> On 12/29/2015 6:33 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >>>> It sounds like that is what we should be working on, if we continue to > >>>> offer the option. > >>>> > >>>> Is there a Bugzilla # on this? > >>>> > >>>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>>> From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 11:08 > >>>>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > >>>>> Subject: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto > >>>>> backup copy. > >>>>> > >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>>>> Hash: SHA1 > >>>>> > >>>>> On 26/12/2015 15:55, Bill M wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I did find in options that in Options\Load Save\General “Always create > >>>>> a > >>>>>> backup copy” was not checked. This should be checked by default. :( > >>>>> > >>>>> a) There is an extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently ir-reproducible > >>>>> bug in AOo, EO, and LibO that is triggered when "Always create backup > >>>>> copy" is checked. This bug both destroys data, and prevents the backup > >>>>> copy from being made. > >>>>> > >>>>> b) Manually saving the file is superior to automated backup, precisely > >>>>> one can save it to different folders, and thus rollback to earlier > >>>>> states is possible. (I'm deliberately ignoring OoSVN here.) > >>>>> > >>>>> jonathon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
