Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

Hi,

On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 12:34 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: 

> Hi :)
> Both things happen.  Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting 
> down when asked to.  It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open 
> documents.  If you did have an open document then it will often tend to have a 
> problem and want you to "recover" it even if you dealt with those error pop-ups 
> neatly during shut-down.  Neither thing always happens but one or the other or 
> both do happen fairly often.  
>
>
> I once shut-down halfway through writing something in a Gnu&Linux, got a brief 
> warning that i ignored and it quickly timed out and continued with the 
> shut-down.  Then i installed a completely different gnu&linux over the top of my 
> OS and opened the  text-editor to find it reopened the unsaved text-file with 
> only a few words missing.  Sadly it was a very unimportant note and i've not 
> repeated the experiment because it's too risky to do stuff like that.  It 
> shouldn't work so it was quite a surprise.  
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Nelson <lists@traduction.biz>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 10:41:33
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly 
> need recovery
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Are you suggesting that if you log out of or shut down Windows when you have
> > some component part of Microsoft Office 2010 open then it will just abort
> > and complain next time it is opened?  Are you joking?  Even if you have an
> > unsaved document open, Word (or whatever) - being closed by Windows - will
> > challenge you to save or discard your changes.  You may have a good reason
> > to choose your operating system and application software, but made-up
> > stories about others is not.
>
> It will not *abort*, but the next time Word, for instance, opens you
> will definitely be prompted to check whether you want to recover the
> last doc(s) you were working on, even if you carefully saved the
> doc(s) before ending your last session. Try it and see. Microsoft
> Office and LibreOffice function fairly similarly from this viewpoint,
> and it does help to prevent data loss when crashes or accidents
> happen.
>
> BTW, I am *not* getting into a "Word versus Writer stand-off" here... :-)
>
> -- 
> David Nelson
>
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I think the default is to assume there was a problem that caused an
"unexpected shutdown" of any open documents. I think it is more when
power goes off or the OS decides it must reboot than when a user forgot
to shutdown the application correctly. It is very difficult for an
application to know why it shutdown "unexpectedly" so good practice is
to assume a problem occurred and any open files need to be recovered.
-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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