Steven,
Your advice is perfect for a proper shutdown of a computer, BUT,
those good practices are PRECISELY what do not occur if a power outage
occurs while someone is using a computer which does not have a battery
backup. Laptops have a built-in battery backup. Desktop and tower
machines and workstations do not have integral battery backup so they
are subject to sudden improper shutdown.
I am convinced that users of AOO should be advised to use an
external battery backup system for computers which do not have integral
battery backup. This advice should be provided along with the
information about how to download and install AOO. Users should be
given this advice BEFORE a catastrophe occurs.
I've been reading essentially all of the OpenOffice, now Apache
Open Office, Users E-Mail. It seems that a large proportion of serious
problems, from which recovery might be very difficult or impossible, are
attributed to improper, i.e. hasty, shut down. That is exactly what
happens when AC Line power to a vulnerable computer is lost.
-- Tom Panfil
On 7/14/20 3:45 PM, Steven Ahlers wrote:
Tom that’s an interesting idea. I would suggest an even more important concept,
practice good computer hygiene: before you leave your computer save all
documents, shut down all programs. Then if there is a power failure no problem.
I would recommend clearing out browser memory (history, cookies, etc.) you can
bookmark websites and use a password manager to easily return to websites on
restart.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 14, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Tom Panfil <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello AOO Users & Advisors,
For years I've routinely read reports from Open Office Users about various
problems. Many are generally attributed to having shut down one's computer too
quickly, before shut down processes have been completed.
I've used OO and AOO for many years, both on Windows based computers and on
MacBook Pros. I've never experienced *this* type of problem. I attribute that
good fortune to three things:
* Use of Uninterruptible Power Supplies with Desktop Computers.
* Use of Laptop Computers which have immunity to power loss due to
their internal batteries.
* Very deliberate shut down processes:
o Quit the Running Applications (at least all which involve my
user data)
o Log out of whatever LogIn Accounts have been in use (generally
just one)
o Shutdown the computer
I think that AC Power Failures which cause sudden shutdowns are the cause of
many AOO Problems.
Should the AOO Installation site STRONGLY recommend the use of Uninterruptible
power Supplies with non-laptop computers?
Users might be unhappy with paying for UPSes, but they are a small expense
relative to the pain of serious data loss and corruption of profiles.
--
*v/r,
Tom Panfil
eBureaucrat (Ret.)
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