LibreOffice multiple save locations under Vista

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#1

Hi, all.
I'm working on a website project, editing stories for web publication with
LibreOffice. I'm storing all of my texts on a Coby MID7022 tablet for
convenient reading wherever I am, and in order to edit them, I've been
linking to the tablet as an external drive through my USB port.
My concern is that I don't want to prematurely wear out the SD in my tablet
with the constant autosaves of LibreOffice, so what I want to do is:
1) Load my target file for editing from the tablet into LibreOffice on my PC
running Vista.
2) Autosave the file as I edit into an equivalent directory on my PC.
3) Do a final canonical (I just /love/ that word!) save onto the tablet.
This will allow the PC to accept all the wear and tear instead of the
relatively more fragile SD. I know, I know...SD's can last years and years
and years...but in the safety of my backups of my life's work, I'm paranoid.
This has GOT to be possible! You guys are too smart for it to not be!
Thanks for your help, TinKicker

#2

Hi :slight_smile:

Tools - Options - Paths - Backups - Edit

Then navigate through to where you want the back-ups to be saved to. There
might be a few other things in "Paths" that are worth redirecting?

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Once again, thank you Tom. I'll try that and see if it does what I'm looking
for.

#4

I just examined the directories listed in Paths and I can't seem to find one
that's obviously an autosave directory. Do they go to the temp directory?

#5

I looked at the temporary file path in Linux and it was to a tmp directory. I would expect the Vista location to be a tmp directory.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I suspect that autosaves go to whichever folder the document was in when you
opened it. Presumably if you do "Save As" to save to another location then
autosaves from then on will go to the new folder.

Btw have you tried bookmarking folders in your file-browser? Open any
folder just as normal. Look at the menu's at the top of the window that
shows the files and folders (ie the file-browser). I think the Windows one
uses "favourites" instead of bookmarks. Then when the side-pane show
"Places" rather than "Tree" or "Folders" then the bookmarks appear. It's
fairly quick to edit bookmarks to delete ones that were only meant to be
temporary.

I'm not sure if any of that really helps but i hope it might
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Thank you, Tom.
What you suspect is what I've suspected also. Which takes me back to square
one. If I want to edit the file I'm storing on the tablet, then LibreOffice
will autosave back to the tablet, which will access the SD too much for my
comfort.

I guess, unless somebody else chimes in, it's back to brute force: load and
edit from the PC, then do a SAVE AS to the tablet. Clunky and inelegant. A
program of LibreOffice's caliber should be able to automate what I'm trying
to do.

I welcome all suggestions!

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
Open on the tablet but use Save As to save to the PC.  Autosaves will then go to the PC (hopefully).  Then do the final save back to the tablet.  Not completely elegant but probably fairly standard for most programs.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

TinKicker:

I just did a test on my Vista system by setting a very short auto-save(auto recovery) time. The path for my system is C:\Users\TomW\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user\backup on my system. When you close the file, the file copy in the'Backup' folder is deleted.

TomW

#10

TomW wrote

I just did a test on my Vista system by setting a very short
auto-save(auto recovery) time. The path for my system is
C:\Users\TomW\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user\backup on my system.
When you close the file, the file copy in the'Backup' folder is deleted.

Tom,
Thank you for all your effort, here and in the other post of mine.

Due to a serious disaster years ago involving losing lots of work during a
power outage, I keep my autosave at 1 minute. That's the reason I was
worried about the SD. Lot's of access! But your message above encourages me.
Now I shall load in my text from the tablet and see if that autosave file
appears in my backup directory on the PC. If it does, all my troubles are
over.

Thanks again!

#11

Well, it's official...I have verified that no matter what source I load a
file from to edit on my PC, the Auto Save backup is always saved to the
directory specified in the Path settings in Tools\Options, which is on my PC
and not on my tablet.

I don't have to worry about prematurely killing my SD!

Thanks for all the great brainstorming guys.