Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working

The first time this happened (sometime in Dec, as I recall), if I was
prompted as I was today (that the document had been changed and did I
want to save it), I would have just saved it--and only noticed later
that it was no long password-protected. Today, sensitized by the
previous experience, I looked before saving and saw that the "save with
password" was no longer checked.

If LibreOffice is somehow changing that setting accidentally (i.e.,
there's a bug somewhere), I'm not sure a notification system would solve
the problem. 

I'm going to do some experimenting and see if I can pin down exactly
when it happens--assuming it's not somehow random. (I don't use
hibernate or suspend, since for some reason Fedora 15 doesn't recover my
graphic display when I do so, so when it had occurred it has been with a
shutdown.)

Thanks.
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 16:38 -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I'm curious what behavior you would prefer in a variety of edge cases.
>
>  1. On a document recovery or hibernation recovery of an unsaved document, would it be all right 
> to request that the password be provided again in order to reload and resume editing of a 
> document that had previously been saved with password?
>
>  2. On a "Save" or "Save As" of a saved-with-password document that was opened and edited, would 
> it be appropriate to request a password again (with cancellation of the password supported)?  
> (This would remind someone that they are saving a document that was originally saved with 
> password. 
>
>  3. If a saved-with-password document that is opened and the setting to save with password is 
> cleared, would you want a warning that document that was previously saved-with-password is not 
> now being saved with any password?
>
> I'm sure there are other flavors of behavior.  Do you have any preferences among those listed, or 
> do you have another case you'd like to see?
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Beversluis [mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org] 
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 14:17
> To: Tom Davies
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working
>
> Update: happened again today.
>
> I shut down my Fedora 15 with LibreOffice running and the
> password-protected document open (which I do often). When I restarted
> the computer that document opened with a dialogue that it had been
> changed and did I want to save the changes? I took a look at 'save as'
> and the 'save with password' box was unchecked. Unfortunately I can't
> remember what state the document was in before I shut down but I know I
> wouldn't have unchecked the 'save with password' box.
>
> I put a check into the 'Save with password' and saved-as and now it's
> working right again. 
>
> [ ... ]



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