[SWLUG] Open Office problems & recovering files?

[Davage, Marcus]

In my quest to get used to OpenOffice 1.0 on my Mandrake 9.0 partition
rather than Office 2000 on my W2K partition, I was temporarily set back last
night when, after typing in a whole page worth of document, OO just
"vanished" when it tried to save my document. I clicked on "File/Save As"
and put in the file name, and it vanished! All my typing had gone.  I solved
the problem by rebooting W2K and typing it in all over again using Word. A
rather unsatisfactory conclusion to the exercise, but 100% reliable. Unlike
OO.

There was, however, a .tmp file in the Dogfenni (documents) directory, but
OO couldn't open it. Does this mean anything?

I am running an ext3 filesystem. This is allegedly journalled. Therefore, is
there a way to recover a deleted file, or a temporary file? If not, what's
the point of journalling?

I'm frustrated Linux user, who is using it less and less because
1. There are no drivers or applications for my Panasonic DV camera
2. There are no drivers or applications for my CanoScan USB scanner
3. Applications frequently crash (see above), losing data (although the OS
is stable)
4. My copy of windows works fine thank you very much, even though I'd prefer
to use Linux
5. I haven't found an alternative to Microsoft Publisher

On a more positive note, I'd love to use Linux more (I loved Unix in
college); I'm advocating it as much as I can; and I think this group is an
excellent resource. Thanks for all your input!


Marcus


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