My daughter lost...

We lost everything...

I forgot to save...

Sounds like she learned a lesson in the value of building the habit of doing a quick ctrl-s every minute or so, no matter what program you are using.

Learn to save often, but especially learn the limitations of the tools you have. It's not libreoffice's fault if you don't.

Lol. We came this far that forgetting to save is caused by shitty software...

Oof. I think most of us have lost work like this. I kind of think it's a rite of passage. It's how you learn to save. Good luck with the rewrite!

I can't recommend OnlyOffice enough. I just did a test repeatedly killing the application and the document is recovered with the default settings.

At work i use a $800 proprietary shit software that has a 70% chance of crashing when printing (so it crashes when job is done)

So I got used to Ctrl+S every. Single. Sentence.

Windows 10 home loves to automatically reboot to install the fucking updates IMMEDIATELY. RIGHT. NOW. And Microsoft pushed some big update just a few days ago. When LibreOffice crashes usually there's a recovery feature. It's windows. Windows wanted to install the fucking updates and it told LibreOffice to gracefully close RIGHT NOW, and NO, THE USER DOESN'T WANT TO SAVE, the user wants to get updates immediately ASAP

Btw automatically saving is a generally undesirable feature as it could reduce the lifetime of ssds, slowdown the system if the file Is big or stored on slow media like network.

Manual save made sense when a disk write froze the program for seconds and engaged the disk drive with sounds (which I miss a little; very reassuring) but today autosave ought to be fully expected. LibreOffice really should've had it on by default.

I was curious and found this thread.

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-writer-crash-and-autosave-is-off-by-default/92416/4

Apparently the newest version will enable auto save by default. Not sure why it wasn’t that way to begin with…

Thinkpad spontaneously rebooting has some part in the blame here too, no? I mean that’s why this whole fiasco happened..

Sorry you forgot to save but I don't see how this is the fault of the libreoffice community. I also think cheating isn't the right answer at all but that's not really my place.

Maybe you should do a hardware test as it is really not normal for devices to just reboot. I would start with a RAM test then move on to a stress test for a few hours.

Thank you for posting this. I hadn't run into this problem, and now I won't.

If you’re on a Windows PC oftentimes you can go to the user temp folder and find the working document there. %temp% in file explorer.

You might have to do a little digging to find out what/where it is, sometimes they’re nice and obvious in a folder named for the app creating it, sometimes it’s a string of nonsensical alphanumeric characters.

Also: You can go to the “Tools” followed by “Options” then go to “LibreOffice” and click on “Path”, temp and backup files are stored at the location listed there, too.

Either way, I highly, highly suggest you dig around for the lost doc in that folder. It’s saved my butt a couple times when I forgot to save.

You lost it because you didn't save. You are a parent, it's time to take responsibility for your mistakes. Don't blame LO as if you were 13 y/o.

No Backup no pity

Manually save often. She learned the hard lesson all of us learn. I never rely on autosave anywhere. It does not always do it's job.

LMAO blaming the software because you're too dumb to hit Ctrl + s. Presumably you're old enough to have been taught to save often. Now maybe your daughter will learn from your fuck up and actually SAVE HER WORK.

Also she's never going to learn to type well if you just do it for her. Get her Mavis Beacon for Christmas this year and stop doing her homework for her.