On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 21:25, Weiers Coetser wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 9.2 in a dual boot set-up with Windows.
Same here. > 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. > > 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. > > Does anybody have any clue what happened. I've lost some crucial data in > the process. What am I doing wrong? I've had precisely the same experience- with regularly saved documents. I lost a 3000 word essay that was due in a few days! Searched *everywhere* but it was gone. It's clearly some sort of bug with the way OOo is closed/restored when you log out. It is handy to have KDE reopen all yr windows so you can start exactly where you left off, I do the same. BUT the trick seems to be to close all yr OOo windows before logging out. If I find the time I'll report this one of these days. Just not exactly sure who to report it to- mdk, kde, or OOo? Wish I had found some logs of what exactly goes wrong. So- no advice really! Just sympathy- wanted to let you know it isn't just you! A. ps. This experience has rekindled my enthusiasm for *very* regular backups- back up as regularly as you can afford to loose data. There's no guarantee yr next shutdown won't be yr last!
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