On Wednesday 24 May 2006 13:09, Richard Detwiler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 07:01 -0400, Richard Detwiler wrote: > >> I've encountered an odd problem at work with versions. A secretary came > >> to me with this situation. She had a procedure in Writer that was > >> versioned, with an initial version and then one updated version. It was > >> fine on her computer. She saved the document to a shared folder, which > >> is necessary so other people could access it. When she did, the > >> versioning vanished. > >> > >> I asked her to send it to me. When I opened it up directly from the > >> e-mail, the versioning was there. I then saved it to my computer, opened > >> it, and the versioning was no longer there. > >> > >> I'm at a loss as to what could be going on. Any ideas? > >> > >> (FWIW, she said this happens on all the documents that she has tried, it > >> is not specific to this one document.) > > > > Dumb question. Are these saved in MSO formats? > > Not a dumb question at all, because saving in MSO format will certainly > wipe out any OOo versioning. But these ARE saved in ODT format. > Otherwise, I wouldn't even have had versioning when I opened it from the > e-mail.
Quoting from the help pages: If you save a copy of a file that contains version information (by choosing File - Save As), the version information is not saved with the file. My interpretation of this is that it should work if she saves the file to the place she got it from, and then copies, using some command or file manager, it to the shared folder later. When you receive it, you will have to copy it to the place you want it, and then open it with Writer. I'm guessing that the reason for this is that it is assumed that if you save it elsewhere, it is no longer a file that can be versioned. Versioning applies to the master copy of anything only. All others are just the current state that has been extracted. - but then I did not develop it. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
