Avoid losing files

[Maurice Howe <ma...@gmail.com>]

Lost a valuable info file?  You only have to lose your royal ass once to be
cured.  There's frequent backups, of course, but here's a simple way.
    Rename a file being revised by including today's date in the filename,
such as "XYZ 2016-11-25".  For multiple updates per day, add an alpha
suffix.
    Never fail to rename a file when you change it.
    The "downside" is using disk space but you can later delete older
versions.

Maurice Howe

Re: Avoid losing files

[Hagar Delest <de...@gmail.com>]

For the record, an extension, in French was made some time ago, it works fine (just tried on xubuntu 16.10 and AOO 4.1.3):
https://forum.openoffice.org/fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18566&p=241115#p241115

Should not be that difficult to find out how it works even for non-French users.
There are screenshots in the topic (before the post linked above).
Preferences can be accessed by Tools > Add-Ons > Prefs Sauvegarde++ 2.1
There is a toolbar that should appear once installed.

Hagar


Le 25/11/2016  21:22, Maurice Howe a crit :
> Lost a valuable info file?  You only have to lose your royal ass once to be
> cured.  There's frequent backups, of course, but here's a simple way.
>      Rename a file being revised by including today's date in the filename,
> such as "XYZ 2016-11-25".  For multiple updates per day, add an alpha
> suffix.
>      Never fail to rename a file when you change it.
>      The "downside" is using disk space but you can later delete older
> versions.
>
> Maurice Howe
>


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