[Discuss] Another happy convert

[Casper Ford]

Actually, an older version of Open Office from a few years ago used to  
delete the whole file you were working on.  I was doing a work term  
report and it caused me to lose a good portion of work since my last  
backup.  I couldn't switch versions because I was dependent on some  
features of that release of OO.  I ended up writing a shell script to  
make automatic backups to separate files every 10 minutes, I think  
because back then there was not an automatic backup feature yet.

Whatever bug that was has been long fixed, thankfully.

On 29-Jan-08, at 10:46, David Bronaugh wrote:

> Patrick wrote:
>> PPS:	I was surprised to note that Gnumeric handles Excel
>> 	spreadsheets just fine, thank you very much.  Hadn't
>> 	messed with MS files much myself, or looked for ways to
>> 	do it, or needed to, but that was good news.  OpenOffice
>> 	is probably still a good idea, though.
> This would be my cue to shit on gnumeric... :)
>
> I tried to save a spreadsheet recently to a samba share. It failed  
> due to the file being in use or some similar BS.
>
> I then tried to save the file again. CRASH. Data loss.
>
> Overall gnumeric is good, but caveat user here.
>
> At least OpenOffice doesn't do stuff like that.
>
> David
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