Bug 106087 - Backup doesn't create files (or at least the backup directory is empty)
Summary: Backup doesn't create files (or at least the backup directory is empty)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.2.5.1 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
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Reported: 2017-02-19 12:55 UTC by CommodusTheTyrant
Modified: 2017-07-05 08:31 UTC (History)
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Description CommodusTheTyrant 2017-02-19 12:55:55 UTC 
Description:
Even though the recovery option is set to 3 minutes, when Writer messed up a save (reported as separate Bug 106086) I looked in the backup folder in vain - it is empty.

It appears that my Writer does not save any backups.

Actual Results:  
er, I don't know that filling these fields...

Expected Results:
...is applicable...I set the backup times to pretty short intervals (3mins), there was a document loss and voilá, no backup files...


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Comment 1 Jacques Guilleron 2017-02-19 14:29:02 UTC 
Hi CommodusTheTyrant,

Check also "Always create a backup copy" and try again.
Does it work?
Comment 2 CommodusTheTyrant 2017-02-20 01:21:21 UTC 
yeah, 'always create a backup copy' places a file in there, but it is not every 3 minutes like I set the intervals, it looks more like it creates a copy when I save?

nope, you are right - it started creating backups ... weird way to set it up (doesn't feel intuitive that I set the backups to every 3 minutes, yet nothing is created) - I thought this backup copy create was just when I save my file.

anyways, thanks