I agree that is a big problem with OO 1.x. I use OO 2 (1.9) and it
works great. Never have had that problem..

Brock

On 5/15/05, Steven Cayford <strayf at freeshell.org> wrote:
> So, I'm typing a paper in Open Office 1.1.3 on a laptop running Debian
> Sarge. It's a pretty blah, vanilla paper, no fancy layout or anything. I
> have the OOo options set to (a) autosave every five minutes and (b) always
> save a backup.
> 
> I maximized the window, typed for a bit, decided it was better before so I
> un-maximized it. Then the window stopped responding, I couldn't select
> things with the mouse or enter anything with the keyboard; the rest of the
> system was fine. Blah, I thought, and killed off the process, restarted it,
> it asked if I wanted to resume the document I had been working on so I said
> yes. Great. But it's a copy of the document from like three hours ago! It's
> been autosaving all this time, I'd intentionally saved it a couple times
> manually... how the hell did it revert to something from three hours ago?
> And there's no backup file. Just the one document.
> 
> I don't think I've ever seen anything this weird and annoying before on
> Linux.
> 
> -Steve
> 
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