Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew Archibald
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

[newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Weiers Coetser
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

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 19 April 2004 22:25, 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

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
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

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Weiers Coetser
Stephen Kuhn wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Weiers Coetser
Stephen Kuhn wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:05:13 +0200 Weiers Coetser disseminated the following: Shows How lost I can sometimes be: I thought one of the beauties of the Multiple desktops with Linux is that when I log-out, the desktop settings and programmes are saved and restored as they were when I log in

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Charlie
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

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-19 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:58 am, many eyes viewed Weiers Coetser's words:- Shows How lost I can sometimes be: I thought one of the beauties of the Multiple desktops with Linux is that when I log-out, the desktop settings and programmes are saved and restored as they were when I log in for the