This is about the most recent version of LibreOffice on Windows 10. I can’t speak for other versions.
My daughter worked hard on her social studies essay. I type things in for her because she’s a really bad typist, but she tells me what to write… but I didn’t remember to manually save her social studies essay yesterday, and for some reason the ThinkPad rebooted, LibreOffice crashed and we lost the whole thing… because autosave was not automatically on when I installed it.
No, recovery didn’t work. We just got a blank file.
I rewrote it for her based on the information we had and what I remembered and tried to make it sound like what a 13-year-old would write because it was basically my fault and she did do the work. I did have her sit with me as I wrote it in case she didn’t like something I wrote, but it was sort of cheating. I’m okay with that cheating since I know she worked hard on it.
First, though, I went into the settings and turned on autosave.
I like LibreOffice, but why the hell is that not on automatically? Honestly, I don’t really understand why someone wouldn’t want their documents autosaved, but I’m pretty sure most people would want that.
This isn’t fucking 1993. I shouldn’t have to remember to save a document anymore and it shouldn’t be lost forever because of it.
Like I said, I like LibreOffice. I don’t really want to trust documents to Microsoft or Google. But this was really annoying.
I personally don’t really care for autosave but I see where he’s coming from. However I don’t like the fact that he seems to blame a community project for his daughters misfortune. It sucks that it happened to him but I don’t think its constructive to vent in this community.
I like auto save, but it should never be needed and should never overwrote the user saved file. For recovery purposes only.
In this case, it sounds like an os crash, which is not libre office fault, but libre office having auto save by default would have saved it.
I think they have taken the wrong approach. Helping daughter but they write it and learn to type faster. Also a learning experience for software in general and auto save.
Yeah its not really anyone’s fault in this case. I think it is more of a lessons learned than anything.