I used to have that problem. It seems to have stopped around about 16th July 2013. Not sure why!
Either - I upgraded LibreOffice which stopped the feature or I did something else which I can't remember! I'm currently on 4.1.4.2. Alex On Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 07:38:25 Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Errr, is it possible to switch the auto-save and auto-backups off for > a while and see if that improves things? The thing i find difficult > about doing that is remembering to save properly and frequently > enough. With Base i think it's also important to close properly. > > There is some documentation and a handbook at > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications > and the Faq at > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq > might be able to help too but the best place seems to be this mailing > list or the Base forums at Apache OpenOffice. > Regards from > Tom :) > > On 15 January 2014 07:30, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi :) > > Errr, are you using the internal back-end? You haven't connected to > > an external back-end have you? You should really be keeping your data > > in an external back-end instead of having the whole database as a > > single file. > > > > Being able to do that is one of the main things that makes Base so > > much more powerful than Access. The internal back-end got tacked on > > to make Base more familiar to people who have picked up bad habits by > > using Access. It seems to be a bit broken though. Annoyingly the > > Marketing Mailing List and all our flyers, posters and leaflets (at > > least all the ones that mention Base at all) keep pushing people into > > using the internal back-end despite the fact that users have even > > experienced data-loss by doing so. I'm tempted to ask you to take > > this problem to the marketing list to get them to solve it but the > > experts in Base are mostly on this list and will hopefully be able to > > help with this issue. > > > > It should be possible to export your existing tables into an external > > back-end and this mailing list (note, not the marketing list) might be > > able to help you with that. > > > > The next smart thing about Base is that forms and reports can be, and > > are best made in Writer or/and (i think) Calc. So normal users who > > are clueless about databases can read the data in a familiar setting > > and use familiar tools to format and edit things around the > > data-fields. The forms and reports inside Base seem to be for > > data-entry and people who have some clue about databases. > > > > However i have never quite got around to getting to grips with all > > this. So hopefully some of the experts might wade in and set me > > straight (again) > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > On 15 January 2014 05:57, Vince Radice <vhrad...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > >> I am running Fedora FC19-64 bit. Libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 > >> Build ID: 4.1.4.2-2.fc19 > >> > >> Here are some lines of a ls -la command > >> > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 13:10 GRNew odb_0.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1000.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1001.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1002.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1003.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1004.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:58 GRNew odb_1005.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1006.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1007.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1008.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1009.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 13:26 GRNew odb_100.odb > >> -rw-------. 1 vince root 0 Dec 13 15:59 GRNew odb_1010.odb > >> > >> My database name is GRNew,odb. > >> I was looking at some of the recent messages that were talking about LO > >> looping saving backups of untitled documents. It mentioned Calc and Write > >> as being involved. Could this be related to my problem? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Vince Radice > >> > >> > >> On 01/14/2014 12:44 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi :) > >>> On Ubuntu 12.04 i have no files in there. Do the file-names start > >>> with a ~ or with "lock"? In either of those cases i think you can > >>> delete the files without worry but it might be worth testing that for > >>> 1 or 2 files. > >>> > >>> Going off on a tangent i do have a non-LibreOffice folder with a load > >>> of crash reports from when i don't close Xbmc properly and i routinely > >>> delete all of them from time-to-time. I'm not sure if this is similar > >>> or not. > >>> Regards from > >>> Tom :) > >>> > >>> > >>> On 14 January 2014 04:12, Vince Radice <vhrad...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I am seeing something and I don't know if it is a problem or something I > >>>> have to live with. > >>>> > >>>> In the ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/backup directory, I have 3,000+ > >>>> files > >>>> with 0 bytes. I assume that this means the files are empty. There are > >>>> other > >>>> files there which are not empty. The non-empty ones appear to be backups > >>>> of > >>>> files I have worked on. The empty files all appear to be attempts to > >>>> backup > >>>> a Base database that I have created using the built in hsql engine. The > >>>> file is stored on my computer. The time stamps on the files are unusual. > >>>> There are 6 files with a time stamp of 15:58, 6 with 15:59, 6 with 16:00 > >>>> and > >>>> the pattern continues for the other 3,500 empty files. > >>>> > >>>> Does any one else have the same situation? I have the save/backup time > >>>> in > >>>> the general options set to 15 minutes. > >>>> > >>>> I have a listing of all of the files if anyone wants to see it. > >>>> > >>>> Thank you, > >>>> Vince Radice > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > >>>> Problems? > >>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >>>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >>>> deleted > >>>> > >> > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
