I have just had a really simple (almost patent-able) idea (I don't know
whether anyone else has suggested this before).  I thought I'd push it in
your direction in preference to MS. I am a software developer, but I develop
in PL/SQL, not C++, so I am not involved in Open Office.
 
It requires hardly any programming and is very simple.
 
If you can detect the presence of a second (physical) hard disk, allow the
user to configure the app (or suite) to automatically save a second copy of
any file at that location.  Alternatively re-create the entire documents
folder on the second disk.  I suppose the second directory could be remote.
 
The reason people would want to take advantage of this feature is simply
that we all know we should make a backup, but backups are rarely made.  The
concept of saving the file as one single physical block dates back to DOS
(3) and before.  With the advent of really large (200GB+) disks, it makes
sense to create a duplicate.  We have all suffered a hard disk and I know of
no desktop that has RAID (I had RAID on mine for a year, but the computer
died and I couldn't recover the array).
 
Many thanks,
 
Michael Streeter
 

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