https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105589
Bug ID: 105589
Summary: FILESAVE: Auto-save time measured from wrong starting
moment
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.1.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: l...@zeta.org.au
I expect auto-save to happen at the intervals I have set in the Options, and to
be measured starting from the time of the last save, *especially including* the
time I last manually saved.
Instead, auto save seems to occur on a fixed interval.
I just double-checked this: I saved my document (waited 15 seconds for it to
complete), then continued editing. Within 15 seconds, the regular auto-save
once again interrupted my work and occurred. (I have set the period to 20
mins).
I believe the idea of auto save is to preserve your work, in case of a crash,
power failure, or similar.
The purpose of setting a time period is to limit the amount of work that might
be lost.
For a long document, auto save takes long enough to end a 'flow state', and is
somewhat disruptive.
Having it kick in to save a few seconds of work is intensely annoying. It also
means a user cannot avoid auto-save even by being so disciplined that they
manually save more frequently than the auto save period they have chosen. With
the current method of setting the start time for the time measurement, the
auto-save feature is almost annoying enough for me to turn it off and just rely
on remembering to manually save, myself.
Please consider changing this behaviour.
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