[Discuss] Another happy convert

David Bronaugh dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org
Tue Jan 29 11:11:32 PST 2008


Casper Ford wrote:
> Actually, an older version of Open Office from a few years ago used to 
> delete the whole file you were working on.  I was doing a work term 
> report and it caused me to lose a good portion of work since my last 
> backup.  I couldn't switch versions because I was dependent on some 
> features of that release of OO.  I ended up writing a shell script to 
> make automatic backups to separate files every 10 minutes, I think 
> because back then there was not an automatic backup feature yet.
>
> Whatever bug that was has been long fixed, thankfully.
Oh, the automatic backup feature. Yeah, that one's a blast.

It's the one that creates an automatic backup of the file you're working 
on that contains less information than the last save.

It's a blast.

David


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