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[jerryg860]

Group:

This thank-you is to all who responded.

I'm grateful for all of the help.

This is an active group, to judge by the number of responses that my simple (er, naïve; maybe, stupid as well) query received.

You are, also, an informative, spirited (er, maybe, contentious as well) group.

Most of you realized how little I knew about LO. I still know little, though all of you have helped to push away, a good distance, the darkness that had engulfed me.

First: I solved the problem of putting a WordPad document into LO so that I could benefit from its vastly superior features. I don't know what I'd been doing incorrectly, but I now go directly to my desktop LO icon to work on my novel.

(By the way, at the risk of being told, again, that I don't know what I'm doing - I don't - I found that when backing up my desktop to an external hard drive, LO didn't copy to it as the other programs did; I had to back it up on its own.)

On the main matter: There is no way, if I understand all of you, to have the program save my changes without my answering Yes to the question when exiting a document.

I'd been looking for an automatic, periodic save without exiting; while autosave does that, it's only for the purpose of retrieving the document in case of a malfunction. (Do I have that right? No?)

Peter, An automatic periodic save without exiting is in LO but you have to set it in the options from the menu. Tools>Options>Load/Save>General Under the Save heading you can set the time interval to save the recovery information AND THE DOCUMENT. Set the time interval for whatever you want and check the box to save the document along with the recovery information. Make the time as short as you are comfortable with realizing that the save operation will interrupt you. Depending on the size of your document and the speed of your computer/hard drive, there may be a measurable pause during the save operation. Contrary to comments, where the document is saved is determined by the folder path you specify in Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Paths>My Documents.

Jerry

[Piet_van_Oostrum]

jerryg860@earthlink.net wrote:

> Peter, An automatic periodic save without
> exiting is in LO but you have to set it in the
> options from the
> menu. Tools>Options>Load/Save>General Under the
> Save heading you can set the time interval to
> save the recovery information AND THE
> DOCUMENT. Set the time interval for whatever you
> want and check the box to save the document along
> with the recovery information.

LO 5.0, at least on OS X, does not have the option 'Automatically save the document too', although it is described in the help documentation.

[Graham_Luffrum]

Same applies to LO 5.0.1.1 for Linux (deb).

[Tom_Davies1]

Hi
This sounds like a bug rather than a deliberate change of direction chosen
by the devs.

However, it could have been just that in order to ensure a completely fresh
rewrite of that functionality. There has been a long running but extremely
rare set of intermittent bugs which have been extremely hard to replicate
(and thus to figure out how to fix).

One of the only factors they seemed to have in common was that switching
off the auto-save feature seemed to stop the problem from recurring.
Unfortunately switching the auto-save back on never seemed to bring the
problem back so it's been impossible to find the full combination of
factors required to get 1 instance of 1 of the set of bugs to work. It
also doesn't help that;
1. the last reported instance of the problem (at least to this mailing
list) was over 2 years ago
2. it never made any logical sense in the first place and the entire
code-base had been pretty much re-written before the last occurrence

It's a bit like opening a newspaper in the dining room and the porch-light
blows and then finding that someone else opened their newspaper in their
kitchen and their porch-light blew too but that it doesn't happen to anyone
else until a few years later despite many people reading newspapers and
having a porch-light. So this could be an attempt to replace all
newspapers in case there is some magical and illogical connection between
newspapers and porch-lights!

Each bug in the set has the same result (to us weeus) and that is the loss
of all images in a document! Quite a big problem on the extremely rare
occasions where one (or more) of the set of bugs occurs but each occurrence
is so rare that even the documentation team don't bother to keep a spare
copy of each image outside their documents "just in case".

So this loss of functionality could be an attempt to deal with a
"high-impact but low likelihood" problem or it could be just a random
event. Either way it might be good if someone could post a bug-report,
perhaps as a "feature request"

Regards from
Tom