Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 100651
recovery can cause two versions of the same file to be open
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:51:45 UTC
You can end up with two versions of the same file open at the same time when using recovery. Steps: 1. open existing file 2. make sure autosave is set to a reasonably low number of minutes 3. make a few changes without saving 4. kill soffice 5. reopen OOo by clicking on the original file, or via command line 6. notice after recovery that the original file and the recovered file are both open Normally you can't cause two versions of the same document to be open at the same time, so this is most likely a bug, or at least bad behavior because a user could end up not noticing and end up editing both versions of the same file...
confirmed on official OOo 3.0.1
*** Issue 95061 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
In Issue 95061 we have a hint that that problem vanished for 3.2?! @ccheney: Can you confirm that the problem is no longer reproducible with 3.2?
I had previously reported in Issue 95061 but I'm going to start reporting here since 95061 has been marked a duplicate of this one. I encountered the problem again just now. OpenOffice died because X died. When I resumed OO, I launched it to open a file which was already open when it died. After recovery, I had the "same" file open twice: one had the autosaved version (which was the NEWER version) and one had the last version I had explicitly saved (the OLDER version). I'm going to repeat what I said earlier: this bug can lead to data lossage because the passage of time or the complexity of some documents may cause the user to be confused when he has to decide which of the two windows to discard. The version string in the About dialog is: OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 OOO320m19 (Build:9505) ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1