Re: [libreoffice-marketing] US Journalist blames LibO for lost work

On 12/13/2012 09:58 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 09:00 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> > On 12/13/2012 03:38 AM, C. Olofson wrote:
> > > fyi;
> > > > I really really want to like Libre Office, but I just lost an hour 
> > > > of editing in a document due to some bizarre bug that I can't can 
> > > > now reproduce. And I was saving regularly. Crap, crap, crap.
> > > https://plus.google.com/113210431006401244170/posts/E7Ktup1Aq4M
> > He does not elaborate about the problem so it is impossible to fix or 
> > reproduce. Other than his claim LO lost his data we know nothing 
> > about what happened. Also, did he hit UNDO to try to recover?
> >
> > Truthfully, I can not remember when any program I was using lost data 
> > where the major part of the problem was not in the chair (me).
>
> I wonder about the auto-save option.  He said something about saving 
> it regularly.  Was that through auto save or manual save? The file 
> just went missing or did the recover process do something bad?  Never 
> heard of any such thing with Ubuntu.  Also, how long was the 
> document?  2 pages, 10, 20? That could affect the recover process, 
> yes, no?
Good question about document length and how was he saving. What I read 
did not have enough details to know truly what happened.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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