On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:42 am, many eyes viewed Stephen Kuhn's words:- > On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 06:25, Weiers Coetser wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm running Mandrake 9.2 in a dual boot set-up with Windows. > > > > On at least three occasions I've lost some of my working documents in > > the process of rebooting. When I log out the Open Office Documents are > > open, but when I log on they are nowhere to be found, not in my Trash or > > in the place where I saved them last. I save frequently, so it is not an > > issue of losing the document because I never saved. > > Why would you leave ANY applications running when you log out? By > logging out you kill those applications and any data that's in them...so > yes, you would effectively loose the data (or document) that you're > working on. You should always close/save applications/data prior to > logging off... > > > Once or twice when I started Open Office, the filename was displayed and > > I was asked if I wanted to restore the session or save it... I can't > > remember exactly, but I think I chose both the options at different > > times and each time the result was that the file dissappeared for good. > > Try looking in the ~/.openoffice/usr/temp directory - MAYBE your > documents (the lost ones) are in there somewhere...
Further to this, though not at all in my experience required on a Linux Mandrake system, in the /Tools/Options/Load/Save/General, you can specify saving every........ however many minutes apart. It will prompt you to remember to save on the first attempt and after do so without intrusion of your work, unless you ask to be prompted each time. There also you can also select backup each copy, and at the end of a week or whenever burn the backups to a CD and delete them from /home. I have never lost any data in OpenOffice, even when foolishly I have logged out accidentally when the program was still running. So I would say that's another thing you're doing wrong? Charlie > stephen kuhn - owner > ============================== > illawarra computer services > a kuhn media australia company > http://kma.0catch.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Each team building another component has been using the most recent > tested version of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its > piece. Their work will be set back by having that test bed change under > them. Of course it must. But the changes need to be quantized. Then each > user has periods of productive stability, interrupted by bursts of > test-bed change. This seems to be much less disruptive than a constant > rippling and trembling. - Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month" -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++ If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? .......................................Henry David Thoreau ************************ This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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