Do this,
File->New->Text document
type blah
Dear Axalon:
You did it!
In StarOffice, as you suggested, I did the following:
File->close
yes to save, file name is blah, Ok
Now,
File-># (it's 1 if you've fresh install)
type "blah blah", so now you have three blahs
File->Close
yes to save
Now look in backup/
And blah.bak is there!!!
Question: Do I then first have to save the file, then reopen it and save
it again? Is that the standard way of creating a backup?
Anyway, that's the way it seems to work. I just changed the paths from
the default to /home/sher/docs for both save and backup. Works
perfectly. Saved a few lines under a name. Reopened added a few words.
Saved again. Bingo: the file and .bak appear next to each other. Here is
the data. Look for yoke.sdw and yoke.bak below:
[sher@adsl-77-232-87 sher]$ cd docs
[sher@adsl-77-232-87 docs]$ ls
anna extra inferno linux plays shklov~1 wentzell
ascii faina inferno.bak marshak poetry svezho wizard
benjamin fiction inv natasha reviews tech
yahoo-edu.doc commerce freeware ladycat old rus
temp yale data friends let-in others russmark
vaginov yoke.bak dostov general let-out pdf scholar
websher yoke.sdw [sher@adsl-77-232-87 docs]$
I guess this does make sense, after all. StarOffice cannot create an
automatic backup until the file has already been given a name. In WP8,
though, you can create a BK! file the first time you save a file.
Just curious if this is the way StarOffice creates a backup for others.
Let me know, please.
My thanks to Axalon and everyone else for helping me solve this
mysterious problem so I can finally get back to work and enjoy using
StarOffice.
Benjamin
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
