Andy nailed it. The problem is that when you do a File > Save As, the
versioning information is lost.
When I moved the file using Windows (right clicking on the file,
selecting copy, going to the folder I wanted, right clicking, and
selecting paste), then the versioning was maintained.
When I opened the file in OOo Writer, selected File > Save As, then
navigated to the new folder, and selected Save, the versioning was lost.
Thanks for the help. Problem solved.
Dick Detwiler
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Pepperdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:56:39 +0100
Subject: Re: [users] Question on versions in Writer
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
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