Recently I lost several hours of work in a large document with a tight
deadline when OOo crashed; I had forgotten to set timed backups when
recently installing a new version of OOo. Probably once or twice a
year I lose significant work (not necessarily in OOo) because of an OS
(usually Windows) or application crash, not to mention unplanned power
outages (in North America, albeit not in the US :-).
I would definitely be in favour of having backup-copy and timed-backup
either turned on by default or asked about during installation. One of
the nicest features of Emacs is its maintenance of numbered versions,
with control over how many old versions to keep.
I'm not sure how a session-restore facility could help without having
the backup features turned on.
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Peter Reaper wrote:
Vince Castanza said on 08.04.2007 07:10:
To make a long story short: This problem would have been avoided if I
had actually enabled the very useful "Always Create Backup Copy" option.
Has there been any discussion about enabling this option by default?
This should not be on by default because:
1. Current operating systems are *very stable*
2. Important (mission-critical) files should be *backed-up* every day
3. The *resulting clutter* of all duplicate files all the time is not worth
the *extremely rare* ocurrence of someone somewhere saving a file.
or
how about a "allow OpenOffice to use XXXX amount of harddrive space
automatically for backups" I understand the double-the-space
requirements and problems that this option poses. However, how about
prompting the user at install time?
No UI, please. Perhaps something similar to Firefox's "Session Restore"?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
