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.
Why would you not like auto save, it’s literally got a negative amount of impact on you
I have had documents and spread sheets ruined by auto save. Let me decide the revision history.
I guess but as a creator a return back to the dark ages of the 90s use it or lose it and hope you don’t crash system is a waking nightmare to me
Just use version history to undo autosaves if needed. Which at least some basic level of VH to include the last manual save should be part of writer/calc/word/excel imo. But its easy to use other software to handle version history so you can do restores.
Just tested in Word and revision history did no have several of the revisions a lot was lost. It is far worse in Excel. I will stick to manual saving. And I did that with an Enterprise account using business one drive.
Just as a sidenote: I am comfortable in Libre or Micsosoft Office, I have found good reasons for both over the years, and they both have auto recovery (which is the most important) and both can by autosave. But my preference is to manage my changes myself.