At 23:49 13/11/2017 +0000, Alan Pearce wrote:
From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
Date: 13/11/2017 23:29 (GMT+00:00)
At 09:35 14/11/2017 +1100, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
At 20:20 13/11/2017 +0000, David G.Macmillan wrote:
NOW on selecting the required document a box appears "OpenOffice
Document Recovery" the ref 2017DP Consultation Response and Not Recovered Yet.
The why is difficult to answer as we [meaning *I*!] don't know
what the cause of the message is, it definitely not comes from OpenOffice.
Oh, it surely does! (And the rest of us know what the cause is.)
Oh. Do we? How about letting us all in on the secret then
It's no secret! Providing that Tools | Options... | Load/Save |
General | Save | Save AutoRecovery information every ... Minutes is
ticked, OpenOffice regularly but quietly salts away information about
the current editing session. Normally, this information is purged
when the active document is closed. If OpenOffice fails for any
reason (hardware problem? software glitch? user malpractice?), the
saved information is not deleted. This is detected the next time
OpenOffice is started and the offer described above - to attempt
OpenOffice Document Recovery, here on the document file "2017DP
Consultation Response" - is made. If the recovery is successful, a
version of the document is presented and the user can decide whether
to save it instead of or as well as the original file - whatever
condition that is in. If the recovery is not successful, the offer
will be repeated each time OpenOffice is started. The solution in
this case is simple: to decline the recovery process once.
Strangely, the manuals suggest that this facility saves the current
state of documents over the originals - as if File | Save were being
used at regular intervals. But that is not the case (and would be
unhelpful anyway). The built-in help is somewhat clearer on the subject.
Brian Barker
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