comment found on slashdot.org concerning recovery mechanism: "but recent (3.x) versions of OpenOffice ate my kids documents. It really sucked. From what I can gather it's a known bug in the document recovery module that hasn't been fixed to this day. The program crashes, writes a blank document out as the 'recover' document, then cheerfully overwrites all your original file and any of the automatically made backups. I suppose that somewhere along the line there was some user error. My kid probably could have said 'no' to something and stopped the whole mess. But seriously, she shouldn't have too. I've got a 500 frickin' gig drive in her machine. The biggest word doc I've ever seen in my life was 5 megs (mostly pictures). Why the hell do we still delete shit? Just make a huge undo buffer or something. I've got half a fscking terabyte. Come on OO.org, just use it already!" maybe a good idea?
Thanks for bugreport Please, verify if in last version of LibreOffice still reproducible And developers need exact steps to reproduce this bug
Marking this as INVALID as there is no document showing the bug, no steps to reproduce. Furthermore, there are good reasons not to make a massive undo buffer: 1. We try to be useable by everyone, many people don't have 500 gig drives 2. As computers move forward to SSD, drives are shrinking again, not uncommon to have < 16 gigs these days 3. Again as we move forward there is a good chance that cloud computing is going to become the norm, making 500 gig drives actually obsolete ;) I don't think this will be the case but it's a possibility Ultimately this isn't a reproducible bug so we can't confirm, and the proposed solution of unlimited or incredibly large undo buffers isn't in the plans. If the original bug can be reproduced I suspect we'll mark it as a CRITICAL bug but we need more information than was provided.