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My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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This is about the most recent version of LibreOffice on Windows 10. I can't speak for other versions.

My daughter worked hard on her social studies essay. I type things in for her because she’s a really bad typist, but she tells me what to write… but I didn’t remember to manually save her social studies essay yesterday, and for some reason the ThinkPad rebooted, LibreOffice crashed and we lost the whole thing... because autosave was not automatically on when I installed it.

No, recovery didn't work. We just got a blank file.

I rewrote it for her based on the information we had and what I remembered and tried to make it sound like what a 13-year-old would write because it was basically my fault and she did do the work. I did have her sit with me as I wrote it in case she didn’t like something I wrote, but it was sort of cheating. I'm okay with that cheating since I know she worked hard on it.

First, though, I went into the settings and turned on autosave.

I like LibreOffice, but why the hell is that not on automatically? Honestly, I don't really understand why someone wouldn't want their documents autosaved, but I'm pretty sure most people would want that.

This isn't fucking 1993. I shouldn't have to remember to save a document anymore and it shouldn't be lost forever because of it.

Like I said, I like LibreOffice. I don't really want to trust documents to Microsoft or Google. But this was really annoying.

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[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 10 points 9 months ago

Er, you lost your daughters essay because you assumed that autosave was enabled.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 9 months ago

Some weeks ago I wrote my probabilities homework on LaTeX, every couple of lines I press F5 to compile and see how it was looking. I was pretty sure that compiling automatically saved the project, but I was wrong and lost and entire night of LaTeX work. Now I know that I need to manually save first, after that compiling save the project and the compiled pdf when F5.

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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

FYI: It does have the option to save automatically:

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Thanks, that's what I turned on. My problem was it wasn't on already.

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[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Wait, all this time I thought that LibreOffice sutosaved after doing the first manual save. Oof, how do I turn it on, just in case?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

It's in the settings. There's a load/save option on the side bar.

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[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Never rely on autosaves for anything, ever.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, foss softwares are full of these 'design flaws' for some reason. Take for exemple the 'single click to open files' that was the default on KDE for so long despite everyone reverting it back to double click.

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[-] electric@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Auto save option that isn't enabled by default is some evil design. 😬

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Always save first, and name the file.

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 8 points 9 months ago

Damn, you got hit with a severe case of triple bad luck (machine, software and humanness).

As someone who thanks to you got reminded to look at their software backup settings, thanks for your sacrifice.

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