Save auto recovery information

Steve_Edmonds · February 14, 2018, 8:42pm

Is it possible to make this setting on a per-document basis.
It is a real interruption editing one document with 8-10 others open for reference only, that all auto-save and stop you editing the working document.

It would also be useful then to turn auto-save off for reference documents so they are not accidentally altered.

If not, possible enhancement. An auto-save on/off toggle in a top or bottom bar for easy reference and switching.

Cheers,steve

Peter_Hillier-Brook · February 14, 2018, 11:33pm

Just a guess, but why not open the "reference only" documents as read
only? I imagine that LibreOffice will not auto save such documents, but
if it does I would suggest that that's a bug.

Peter HB

Tom_Davies1 · February 17, 2018, 9:17am

Hi
I'm not sure how to open as read-only myself but i'd guess a right-click
either per file or on a group of selected files prolly has something.

I think chmod might help change which user "owns" the files - or put them
on a volume/drive/folder that is mounted read-only - but that all seems a
bit extreme.

You could change the time-delay or completely eliminate the auto-save
feature. Such options used to be in;
Tools - Options - ...
or something like that and prolly still are.

Good luck and regards from
a Tom

Peter_Hillier-Brook · February 17, 2018, 10:03am

Hi
I'm not sure how to open as read-only myself but i'd guess a right-click
either per file or on a group of selected files prolly has something.

Select "Open File" within Libre Office: in the dialogue box, in the
lower left hand corner is a clue and yes, it does function with multiple
selected files.

I think chmod might help change which user "owns" the files - or put them
on a volume/drive/folder that is mounted read-only - but that all seems a
bit extreme.

It's more than a bit extreme, but changing the permissions on the
reference files would work, with possible side-effects. i.e. Libre
Office would probably try to auto-save and might regularly bleat about
its inability to do so.

You could change the time-delay or completely eliminate the auto-save
feature. Such options used to be in;
Tools - Options - ...
or something like that and prolly still are.

Not a good idea if one wanted to auto-save the "live" document, however
depress F1 and search for "auto" in Help.

Tom_Davies1 · February 17, 2018, 12:52pm

Hi
+1 to all points there! I hadn't thought through my suggestions!

The autosave thing is something that annoys me more than it helps. I don't
like my machine putting me on hold when it suddenly decides it needs to do
something. I tend to switch features like this off where I can and then
just try to make sure I do my own saving and backups on my schedule rather
than on the machine's.

Regards from
a Tom

Girvin_Herr2 · February 17, 2018, 6:32pm

My beef with autosave is that it seems to start saving just as I start typing and it does not save my keystrokes while it is saving and I don't notice it is saving. I end up after the autosave, having to evaluate what keystrokes worked and what didn't, and redoing the keystrokes that got ignored. I still find the autosave benefits outweigh these aggravations, though, so I have it enabled all the time.

Girvin Herr

Steve_Edmonds · February 18, 2018, 3:04am

It is an interesting discussion.
A while back auto-save was losing my images from the document, now that seems well and fixed.
I have a UPS with 15 mins. or more reserve to give me plenty of time to save when the beeping starts, and LO seems so stable now, my multiple documents can sit open for a week or more and I cannot remember the last crash/hangup. I almost wonder if I can turn auto-save off.
steve

Tom_Davies1 · February 23, 2018, 5:02pm

Hi
If you do try turning the auto-save off then you really need to get into
the habit of doing your own saves quite frequently.

I tend to find that creating a document originally takes me a fair while
but if i lose it then it takes me a LOT less time 2nd time around. When
first trying to write something down i wrestle with all sorts of decisions
about grammar, layout, formatting and how to express my thoughts. If i
lose even a significant chunk of work i can usually re-create it very
quickly 2nd time around because i tend to find those decisions are still
lurking around somewhere so i can just get on with the typing.

Regards from
a Tom

nasrin_khaksar · February 23, 2018, 5:14pm

hi.
for changing autoSave:
open tools, options, load-save, general and active or deactivate
Save AutoRecovery information every:
newer versions of libreoffice by default, save the informations every
ten minutes and you can change the number of saving.

Tom_Davies1 · February 23, 2018, 5:22pm

Hi
Yeh, 10mins is waaay too often for me. I think psychologists ht suggest
20-40mins but i would go for around an hour.
Regards from
a Tom

krackedpress · February 23, 2018, 9:22pm

I just checked. I have my auto-save set for 10 minutes.

I know that when I are hard at work doing long documents from notes, or outline, I tend to set it for 5 minutes since a lot of the document is "off the cuff" from a small amount of text in cryptic notes and/or outline of the document. It is easier, I find with a lower auto save time.

Believe me, it came in handy for several documents on a desktop when we lost power - car hit electric pole or such - and I would have lost a lot of work. Now I do that stuff on a laptop, but I still want the auto save.