But in fairness you should note that this can happen with ANY word
processor. I once did an all-nighter (the night before the project was
due : ) creating pages of equations using microsoft equation editor,
only too open my document in the morning and find all my equations were
replaced by error icons. All the resizing, reconfiguring, pleading I
did could not bring them back.
Sure I could yell at microsoft for making buggy and/or hard-to-use
software (and they probably deserve it), but some of the fault is mine
for not doing the project in proper time.
But with that said, how hard would it be to add preliminary autosave
functionality to abiword?
I'm guessing it would just mean saving to an additional file at an
interval. The default directory would be the same as the original, a
reasonable default time interval could be chosen initially with the user
having an option to change it. Sorry I don't have code to back up the
idea.
Kervin
James Reategui wrote:
>
> I tried out your Abi software suite and opened an important text document of
> mine. I did some modifications to it and then saved. When I tried to open the
> file again, came to the surprise that it had only saved the first lines of the
> entire 300k document. An entire months work had gone to the trash!!!
>
> How can you even distribute a program that wont save? Even if it is free, you
> should still make a comment about it that it cant save right and will corrupt
> files. So in base, your software is still useless, because without the save
> option, you cant really do much.
> I dont know why you call it a productivity suite if it is anti-productive