John Jordan wrote:
OO.o 1.9-something, Ubuntu-64 Breezy.
K, I screwed up just now. I opened a homework file for Chapter 12 of the
textbook we are using in one of my classes (Ex_Chapt_12.odt), intending
to use it as a template to start doing the homework for Chapter 13. I
deleted all but the first page information, intending to do a Save As under
the name Ex_Chapt_13. But without thinking I hit Ctrl-s. Oops!
"No problem," I thought. "I know this thing is making automatic backups all
the time, because sometimes it interrupts me while I am typing. I'll just go
get the backup file." I assumed that every time I did a Save it deleted the
old backup file, then renamed the previously saved copy as the new
backup. So I carefully did a Save As of the open document to
Ex_Chapt_13.odt, then opened the file manager to look for the backup file.
Nothing. Nada. Not there. According to Options the backup files are
supposed to be in /home/jjj/.openoffice.org2/backups. The folder is there,
but it is empty.
I searched the entire disk from the root forward for Ex_Chapt_12*.*. No
backup files. All I found was the newly saved version.
Evidently automatic backup doesn't automatically make backups. What
does it actually do? As far as I can tell it does nothing at all. And can
someone tell me if there is any way to retrieve the old version of this file?
And what can I do to prevent this sort of thing from happening again? This
setup is very dangerous.
There is no production OOo 1.9. The last official production release of
version 1 is 1.1.5. The 1.9 series were beta releases for version 2,
often with known bugs, supplied for testing only, with a warning about
this on the OpenOffice.org site download page where they were available.
Automatic backup does work with OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 (and I believe
worked in earlier production releases, but I recently purposely blew
away all old OOo directories and so can't confirm this, other than
noticing a large number of .BAK files existed where they were supposed
to exist.)
Probably the only way you might recover your earlier version of the file
is through dedicated disk recovery software. If you have not done much
writing to disk following your mishap, your file *may* still be there.
(But if you have no deleted file recovery software on your system,
simply downloading it may wipe out your file.)
Jallan
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