On 11/25/2016 01:17 AM, John Hart wrote: > On 11/23/2016 4:36 PM, Doug wrote: >> Take "extraordinary"--and the line I quoted says this is a PROBLEM >> known for some time; therefore presumably there is a way to solve it >> but nobody >> has bothered. And yes, I am careful, but nobody's perfect. OTOH, I >> don't know why anyone would shut off their computer while in the >> middle of using a >> word processor. And anyone who is using a computer for serious >> business has an UPS--uninteruptable power supply. >> >> --doug > I use an editor written twenty years ago for technical work. > It automatically saves what you're working on every five minutes > in a scratch file so if something goes wrong, you won't loose > your changes. Another feature it has, when a file is changed, it > automatically creates a backup, so even if the scratch file > gets corrupted, the original isn't wiped out. These are simple > things to implement, and with millions of OO users, would save a > lot of people a lot of grief. A feature to protect user files > could be added in less time than has been spent chastising > users for not learning how to do backups.
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