On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 18:46:15 +0100 Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi :) > It 'shouldn't do' but what should happen and what actually happens > are often at least 2 different things. In this case it's very > unlikely to go wrong though. > > The main thing is to have a duplicate 'copy' in ODF format as a > back-up in case the file does go wonky. Ideally either emailed to > yourself, or copied to a Cloud, or saved on a usb-stick or on a > different machine or just somewhere other than the 1 place you > usually use it from. > > I suspect that your file is of the type that it's already got several > old versions of itself floating around in different places already - > and that might be enough if the main up-to-date version ever does go > wonky. > > Between LibreOffice 3.x.x and 4.0.0 there were significant changes > that made it worth refreshing quite a lot of documents in the way you > suggested. Ideally pasting as unformatted text or by going via a > text-editor to strip out all the cruft defunct formatting accumulated > over the years - and then reapplying styles and formatting after. > > I don't think it's been needed since then. > > If you bounce it around between different formats, especially if it's > been saved and re-used from a Microsoft format for MS Office 2010 or > more recent then it might well be a good idea to de-cruft it - but > that is more to do with the messiness and constantly changing > "transitional" versions of it's format used in different versions of > MS Office. > > If it's stayed as an Odt (or whatever) then the build-up of cruft is > unlikely to be noticeable. > > Regards from > a Tom :) > Thanks, Tom. This document has never been anything but an .odt, so I'm safe there. I haven't noticed the file size getting outlandishly bulbous, either. Once in a while I make a plain-text copy, so between that and a backup on a flash drive, it sounds like I'm safe continuing to do what I'm doing. Best, Eddie -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
