Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 46086
autorecovery wordperfect style
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:38 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.
Interesting... Not a defect, not a P1 -> enhancement, P3, later..
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.
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