Apparently the LibreOffice bug described in the previous posts is still in operation on version 5.3. The other day, while I was working in a document in LibreOffice 5.3 a split-second outage made my computer shut down. The 'save auto-recovery information every' field was selected and set at 10-minutes interval. I also and saved the document more often. Power outages had happened to me dozens of times while working on OpenOffice and other word processors, and the file recovery process was always capable of recovering most of the work. When I turned the computer on again the usual recovery window appeared (like on other word processors) informing me of the recovery process. I followed the steps carefully and expected to lose only a few minutes of work, but when the document opened there were several pages of work missing. It was almost the same document I had opened hours ago. Several hours of hard work just gone. There wasn't any backup of temp file or anything to retrieve an earlier version. I couldn't believe that happened.
It wasn't a virus at all or anything other than a LibreOffice serious defect. That clearly shows that LibreOffice recovery function doesn't work, and attempting 'recovery' will only cause a large loss of data, even data saved manually while the document is open. This is a very serious bug, and in striking contrast with the most popular word processors, which, in my experience, always recover all data saved before the interval set in load/save options. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817326 Title: [Upstream] Previously-saved LibreOffice document lost by power outage (became 0 bytes long) - LibreOffice should call fsync To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/817326/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
