Richard wrote: > Richard wrote: >> this is the second loss I have had, I even pointed autosave to my >> local drive and had this done every 5 minutes, and this is a pain >> cause this does not happen quickly, you have to wait up to 30 seconds >> or more, in the time lost now with the documents lost I could pay for >> MS office ten times over. Time to stop wasting my time with crap. > > > I apologise to the board for my outburst the loss made me very angry and
Now that you have apologized and hopefully learned your lesson, here are my two cents. Perhaps, as an interim measure, you should do a CTRL+S every other minute or so. Heck, I actually do this and do not really trust autosave at all. You can never know what state a file was in when the power goes off. A habit I retained from years ago when I tried MS Office for a medium report (around 200 pages). Think about it, doing CTRL+S from the keyboard takes hardly a fraction of a second while typing a document -- time that is easily available while thinking and typing. From my experience, it has never affected the time needed to type a document. Next, I would verify where is the tmp file (the ones autosave presumably saves to) is being saved and if that directory has the necessary permissions for user's writing to it. You are not a network drive, are you? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
