Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 101366
AutoRecover did not recover document
Last modified: 2009-07-12 18:11:48 UTC
I was working on a presentation and every now and then I saw the autosave progress bar. Then OOo crashed and informed me that it would auto recover the documents I had been working on. The auto recovery however only brought me the very initial version of the document back. This is the what I now find in the autosave directory: 0 froh@byron:/space/SVN/Driver-Process/trunk/doc $ l ~/.ooo3/user/backup/ total 392 drwxr-xr-x 2 froh users 4096 Apr 27 12:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x 17 froh users 4096 Oct 24 2008 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 froh users 79 Apr 27 11:55 .~lock.Driver Build.odp_1.odp# -rw------- 1 froh users 0 Apr 27 11:55 Driver Build.odp_1.odp -rw------- 1 froh users 0 Apr 27 11:55 Driver Build.odp_10.odp -rw------- 1 froh users 293129 Apr 27 12:11 Driver Build.odp_2.odp -rw------- 1 froh users 37860 Apr 27 12:10 PLDP II Design document.odt_0.odt -rw------- 1 froh users 48522 Apr 27 12:10 prd_pldp_2_20090424.odt_0.odt I've lost 2h of very focused and concentrated work and I'm dead annoyed. I have the fantasy that the crash tried to do a last auto save, which then was empty. either this overrode the last correct auto save or the auto recover did not handle this appropriately. In any case it seems to me that auto save and recover are not transactional. This is on openSUSE 11.1 on x86, using OOO300m21 (Build: 9319) aka Build 3.0.0.9
I'm sad to hear that so much of your work was lost. But for production work I recommend to use one of the major releases and not one of the developer snapshots which your version (DEV300m21) seems to be. Is there any way to reproduce the problem? Otherwise there is not much we can do about it , sorry.
I'm not sure whether AutoSave data loss should only be investigated if it can be reproduced :) ? Fact is, for me the autosave was not transactional, and somehow OOo decided to use a dated save (after reporting the bug I noticed that _some_ changes from the beginning of the session had survived the crash.) instead of the most recent one. Re: development snapshot I'd love to pull in Michael Meeks from Novell, but how do I do a user search in this bugzilla?
Looks like you're a victim of this regression in 3.0: > fix issue 92968 (autorecovery does not recover the previously > auto-saved document version, but the last one which was > regularly saved) If you use 3.0.1 hopefully things will be better; really sorry about your experience though - this was a shocking bug. Sadly we have no automated regression testing to catch this either (that I'm aware of). *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 92968 ***
duplicate -> closed