Keylogger

[Duane Whitty]

On 17-12-03 12:25 PM, Duane Whitty wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17-12-03 12:03 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 15:43:02 +0000 (UTC), thufir wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:37:19 +0100, Xen wrote:
>>>> LibreOffice crashed on me again and took some text with it, now my
>>>> document is incongruent again because I can never remember exactly
>>>> what I wrote.  
>>>
>>> The real-world solution is to use git.
>>
>> How do you store a document with LibreOffice or similar software while
>> writing it, when using git?
>>
>> IMO the only approach is to save the document every time something
>> important was edited, most of the times by overwriting the already saved
>> document and sometimes by another name text_in_progress_00,
>> text_in_progress_01 ... text_in_progress_n.
>>
>> Btw. audio workstations such as Ardour provide an option to take
>> snapshots, apart from just saving a project, we could consider it a git
>> alike approach. An office program perhaps should have such an option,
>> too. Anyway, even when using Ardour or other audio workstations I
>> usually store my work by the in_progress_00, in_progress_01 ...
>> in_progress_n approach. Not automatically, but always if some "hard"
>> work was done, this could happen one time in two days or ten times in 5
>> minutes.
>>
>>
> 
> I just checked LibreOffice Writer's configuration capabilities.  Under
> Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> General you can configure LibreOffice
> Writer to save AutoRecovery information as frequently as once per minute
> and to automatically save the document too.  There is also a checkbox to
> always create a backup copy.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Duane
> 

Additionally, Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> Memory -> Undo lets you
specify how many undo levels you have.  I have never changed the setting
so apparently the default is 100.

Hard to imagine ever losing any work while using these tools/options.

Best Regards,
Duane

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Duane Whitty
duane at nofroth.com