Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

[Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org>]

On 12/31/2015 9:24 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>> I don't think I have much to contribute to the profile corruption issue.
>
> Well, I can't believe it is very hard to write a Windows equivalent of
>
> $ mv ~/.openoffice/4/user ~/.openoffice/4/user.20153112-123456
>
> and wrap it into a GUI Windows executable that adds a few bells and
> whistles around it. Users apparently are much happier if we give them a
> tool than if we tell them to find the OpenOffice profile and rename it.

I assumed that almost all the work would be in deciding what to program,
how to release it, and documenting it, especially describing when to use
it, not in the actual programming, which I could do but did not expect
to be an issue.

If you indeed consider the programming to be a significant part of the
project, I'll take care of it. I assume you would prefer C++, but let me
know if you would prefer a different language. Any particular GUI
library? Is there an automated way of finding the directory containing
the relevant .openoffice, "~" in your example, or should I ask the user?

>
>> I would like to see the backup issue properly documented in Bugzilla,
>> including any prior analysis
>
> I can't help you with this. The dictionary one has been discussed for
> years, and it could be fixed (after the fact) by a simple tool like the
> one described above, but I had not heard of the backups issue until this
> week.
>
> Regards,
>    Andrea.
>
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