On 04/15/2007 10:31 AM, andy wrote: > My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went > to go and save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the > document crashed. Now everything except the very earliest save > is gone! She is *not* impressed (so much for my Linux > advocacy!).
As for recovering, I think you are out of luck. But it is very naive to write a document without saving often. One of the first things users *should* learn is to save often. I rarely write more than a paragraph or two before I hit Ctrl-S. Also, there is an option in OOo to save AutoRecovery information every N minutes. It is off by default on my etch system, so it probably is on yours as well. Go to Tools -> Options and select Load/Save -> General on the left. The fourth check box is for saving AutoRecovery information. Sure, I think it should probably be on by default, but it isn't, so I deal with it. I believe this feature is on by default in MS Word, but that doesn't make it superior. -- Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
