Bug? autosaving does not seem to work

[Timothy J.Wood]

On Dec 15, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Alfred Lang wrote:

> Is it a bug or did I simply miss some enabling switch? OO Pro beta 5 
> does not autosave in spite of having set it to 5 minutes intervals. It 
> has stolen me or lost data which would also mean that the application 
> did not ask for saving at the time of a restart procedure, but simply 
> quit (but I am not  as completely sure about this as with the autosave 
> lack since I had some other irregularities in the system at that 
> time).

   We'd need details as to how to reproduce this problem -- I certainly 
haven't seen it (and I'm constantly on the lookout for auto-backup 
problems).

>  In addition the designation of the feature as "automatically save a 
> document backup" is rather unhappy, because it suggests that OO stores 
> anytime two versions, an original and a backup, as many applications 
> do, but 003 does in fact only one.

   There are two versions, but one is hidden.  If you want to know the 
gory details... it's archived in a OABK entry in the resource fork of 
the original document, or as a ".OABK" document inside the file wrapper 
(if your document has been promoted to wrapper status due to having an 
attachment).  The big advantage of this is that it makes it hard 
accidentally break the associating between your backup and your 
original, or to accidentally open the backup instead of your original 
or to accidentally delete the original and not the backup.  We don't 
feel this is a perfect solution, but it has many good attributes.  
Feedback to omnioutliner3 at omnigroup.com on this and other issues is 
always appreciated.

-tim