I just closed a document via keystrokes without saving it. By doing so I lost lost about half a day of work. I though I had set an Autosave, however this was just AutoRecover in Tools, Options, Load/Save. General, "Save AutoRecovery information every x minutes". This option just recovers documents in case of crashes, grrr. The autosave function in Microsoft Office really saves the original document every 10-15 minutes. So if you close a document without saving it you only loose a few minutes of work. I guess the AutoRecover function in Libre/Openoffice was implemented because the suite crashed quite a lot. It almost seems as if none of the developers envisioned a use case where the suite would survive a complete working day without crashing ;-) I really would like to advise the developers to set the priority as high, since more and more governmental agencies and corporations are switching to LibreOffice. The perception of the suite will decrease quite a bit once people loose a significant amount of time due to this missing feature.
(In reply to Patrick Smits from comment #0) > This option just recovers > documents in case of crashes, grrr. That is what I read in the Help, yes. Thanks for your help with filing this issue. Cor
Feature exists since LO 4.1, see bug 47011: Tools->Options -> Load/Save -> General -> Save -> "Automatically save the document too" Of course you're still going to lose the work you did since the last auto-save (up to 15 minutes by default), but i'd claim that's good enough in case of user error. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47011 ***
(In reply to Michael Stahl from comment #2) > Feature exists since LO 4.1, see bug 47011: > > Tools->Options -> Load/Save -> General -> Save -> "Automatically save the > document too" What the * - great joy of expert configuration (not). Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced .. Expert configuration search AutoSave.
Conversion of option to save to .UI (ref optsavepage.ui) with http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5c0dd406207e42aae4d3dbaca8235cc5ab01bc6b apparently did not get done correctly. Setting this duplicate of Bug 65509 - "FILESAVE "Automatically save" is not running" is open against the function. Also, not at all clear when setting from Expert Configuration which stanzas would need to be adjusted--and that disconnect between the checkbox in .UI implementation and elements in Expert Config may be the cause of bug 65509. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 65509 ***