On Samstag, 24. September 2022 00:11:01 -04 piorunz wrote: > On 24/09/2022 01:38, Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ wrote: > > did you realize that, if the backup copy fails for any reason, also > > the document cannot be saved and thus *all* work is lost? I > > experienced this behaviour recently to my dismay (not to say > > anger). > > I never used Backup copy feature, I just enabled it. Its doing no > harm, right? I never relied on this feature because I never used it. > The problem is: if you enabled it and for some reason the backup copy cannot be written, LibreOffice also does not write the original. The warning LibreOffice emits is: "Cannot write backup copy" but it does not tell you that it will not even write the original, even if that *could* be written.
All the best Eike > I intend to rely on normal file save as a first thing, then on > built-in recovery in case of reboots (I use Debian Testing and these > happens when GPU driver freezes, LibreOffice always recover opened > files without fail). As a third thing and last thing I will rely on > backup copy feature which I never used. > Additionally, selected important files are synced via SyncThing with > one year of versioning history. > > > So beware: If you get the warning that the backup copy cannot be > > written, then save your document in another way. E.g. ctrl-a and > > paste it into an editor or whatever so at least you have your text > > safe even without the formatting and whatnot. > > > > This is a very silly behaviour of LibreOffice. If the backup copy > > cannot be written but the document can be written - why not at > > least save the document before closing the LibreOffice Writer? > > Thanks for your advice, I will keep that in mind, although I never > experienced read-only tmp folder or LibreOffice being unable to save > file. > > After this experience I disabled backup copies because it is even > > more dangerous than working without backup copies. The reasons why > > backup copies sometimes cannot be written is very obscure. It seems > > to be a hickup of KDE which affects LibreOffice because similar > > things happen sometimes with Okular which sometimes is unable to > > write its tmp files. > -- > With kindest regards, Piotr. > > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ -- Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP6CGE Ag. Molas Lopez Casilla de Correo 13005 01726 Asuncion / Paraguay SIPgate: +49-4131-9279632 Land-line: +595-21-553984 Cell-phone: +595-971-696909 Skype: eikelan Signal: zp6cge Eike Lantzsch WIRE: @eikelantzsch
