Lost documents

[cwz]

How to auto save a text document? It seems OpenOffice used to auto save as a doc is typed. Now, I get a message to the effect that document is lost and "start the recovery process" or something like that but the doc in process is never recovered! I have to start all over again!!! Very time consuming!

[JeJe]

The Options are in Tools menu/Options dialog/Load save

Are you saving in the native .odt format? What you're describing shouldn't be happening.

You may find the TimeStamp backup extension useful

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(I just save manually every few minutes - its just a matter of pressing Ctrl+s and I want to control when it happens rather than be interrupted by an autosave and a wait cursor)
And make sure I make backups to another disk.

[Hagar Delest]

How to auto save a text document?

Actually, there is no such feature (by default).
See: [Solved] AutoSave v AutoRecovery.

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