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Issue #|104879
Summary|make automatic backups turned on by default
Component|framework
Version|OOO310m9
Platform|All
URL|
OS/Version|All
Status|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard|
Keywords|
Resolution|
Issue type|DEFECT
Priority|P3
Subcomponent|ui
Assigned to|tm
Reported by|mickelliot
--- Additional comments from mickell...@openoffice.org Tue Sep 8 08:48:39
+ 2009 ---
I would like to politely request that developers make automatic backups turned
on by default.
I have spent many hours writing an important document on a laptop. My laptop
battery ran down to zero and the laptop switched itself off. I believe this
occurred, by chance, at the same time that OpenOffice Writer was doing an
auto-save. When I restarted my computer I found that the active document had
been corrupted (I opened it in a hex editor and found that it consisted of a
large number of zeros). I appreciate that this issue might be uncommon, but I
was horrified to discover that no backups of my document exist anywhere on my
computer. I found that the saving of automatic backups is by default turned off,
and will only occur if the user explicitly sets a flag in the preferences
dialog. I suspect that most users will only discover this option once a file has
already been lost!
I therefore request that developers consider making auto-backups, by default,
turned on.
Best wishes,
Mick
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