Regarding issue Issue 46248, AutoRecovery IS supposed to AutoSave and recover
the documents to the last automatically-saved version of the file at the time of
a crash. Issue 46248 must be reopened. It is a misunderstanding of some people
that has created such an impression that despite the setting of AutoRecovery,
you still need to save manually. It is meant to save the document in intervals
set by the user. AutoRecovery is broken!

To know why, monitor the following folder while the Autorecovery is set to 1 mins:

C:\Documents and Settings\Joojoo\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\backup

1- You will see an odt document being created and updated every one minute and
as it is supposed to be.
2- Type a little bit. save your document on your desktop. and keep typing for
more than a min without manually saving. Watch out for the autorecovery function
to kick in every one min.
3- Then after a few minues of typing without manually saving, open the task
manager and "kill tree" the process soffice.bin. That is equivalent to a crash.
4- Then open your file on your desktop on which you were working. You will be
given an option to recover your document.
5- Before performing the autorecovery, open the back-up, automatically saved
document, in the location mentioned above. You will see the whole document, safe
and sound, automatically saved every 1 mins.
6- Go back and carry on the auto recovery on the file. If you don't you should
see the saved document up to your last manually saved point. If your
autorecovery worked as it must, instead the file in your back up folder (the
abovementioned folder) has to be used to replaced the one of your desktop to
make it up-to-date uo to the last 1-min interval.
7- Instead, the back-up file in the back up recovery folder is replaced with the
defective document from your desktop! It destroys the automatically saved
document in the backup folder! It replace the good copy with the crippled one!
Works the opposite!