Thank you Brian. A nice clear answer. It has explained some thhings I didn't know. Regards,Alan.
-------- Original message -------- From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> Date: 14/11/2017 16:03 (GMT+00:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: APACHE OPENOFFICE 4.1.3-4.1.4. At 23:49 13/11/2017 +0000, Alan Pearce wrote: >From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> >Date: 13/11/2017 23:29 (GMT+00:00) >>At 09:35 14/11/2017 +1100, Martin Groenescheij wrote: >>>At 20:20 13/11/2017 +0000, David G.Macmillan wrote: >>>>NOW on selecting the required document a box appears "OpenOffice >>>>Document Recovery" the ref 2017DP Consultation Response and Not Recovered >>>>Yet. >>> >>>The why is difficult to answer as we [meaning *I*!] don't know >>>what the cause of the message is, it definitely not comes from OpenOffice. >> >>Oh, it surely does! (And the rest of us know what the cause is.) > >Oh. Do we? How about letting us all in on the secret then It's no secret! Providing that Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General | Save | Save AutoRecovery information every ... Minutes is ticked, OpenOffice regularly but quietly salts away information about the current editing session. Normally, this information is purged when the active document is closed. If OpenOffice fails for any reason (hardware problem? software glitch? user malpractice?), the saved information is not deleted. This is detected the next time OpenOffice is started and the offer described above - to attempt OpenOffice Document Recovery, here on the document file "2017DP Consultation Response" - is made. If the recovery is successful, a version of the document is presented and the user can decide whether to save it instead of or as well as the original file - whatever condition that is in. If the recovery is not successful, the offer will be repeated each time OpenOffice is started. The solution in this case is simple: to decline the recovery process once. Strangely, the manuals suggest that this facility saves the current state of documents over the originals - as if File | Save were being used at regular intervals. But that is not the case (and would be unhelpful anyway). The built-in help is somewhat clearer on the subject. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
