Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

Hi John

John Thaden wrote (30-06-11 19:48)
> New user here, of LibreOffice, trying to recover a document open in
> Writer when a Microsoft update auto-rebooted my computer.

Welcome here - though for a sad/mad situation.

> Reopening Writer, I followed instructions on
> a recovery Wizard.  An error message flashed on and then a document
> appeared, but a very old version of the document.

Does not sound logic to me...

> Did I lose the newer version that was up on
> my desktop for hours?  Doesn't Writer autosave by default?

Save interval for autorecovery is default at 15 min.
See Tools > Options > Load/save > General

> Should I start trying to recreate it from my head?

I have no idea what your computer did with the recovery file. So unless 
someone else comes up with better info, I would think you have to do 
that yes.

> P.S. I'm using LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag
> libreoffice-3.3.2.2 under Windows XP service pack 3.

Thanks for the info. I find no bugs for auto recovery function however:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/query.cgi

Is it something you can reproduce (hmm ask Windows update to do it again 
:-\ )

Regards,
Cor

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