Issue 46086

Summary:	autorecovery wordperfect style
Product:	General	Reporter:	dave8421 <dave>
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 2.0 Beta
Target Milestone:	AOO Later
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description dave8421 2005-03-27 11:32:46 UTC

WordPerfect has a different approach to autorecovery after system crash: It does
not attempt to recover the original file, instead it offers the user the
possibility of opening, renaming or deleting a numbered file, which WordPerfect
had been using parallel to the named file. This approach is more flexible than
the OpenOffice/Microsoft Word approach, and much less dangerous. Yesterday after
a system crash OpenOffice was not able to reopen a very important file of 270
pages. Using the WordPerfect approach I would at most only have lost the 1/2
hour or so between last deliberate saving of document and time of crash.

Comment 1 eric.savary 2005-03-27 11:47:43 UTC

Interesting...
Not a defect, not a P1 -> enhancement, P3, later..

Comment 2 jkha 2005-10-14 01:16:41 UTC

This is annoying since i am on a laptop that doesn't like to stand by when it
runs out of batteries.  It is also fairly unsafe... I would suggest a check box
next to the title defaulted to check, so that you can choose what documents to
recover, for one, and also starting it concurrently with the rest of the
program, so that work is not delayed by running through the recovery dialog.

Comment 3 ace_dent 2008-05-16 01:42:59 UTC

OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but
has not been updated within the last 2+ years. Please consider re-testing with
one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been
addressed. Either use the recent stable version:
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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