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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kword crashed: how does one restore the .kwd~ file?
From:       "Jason Milliron" <jason.milliron () amd ! com>
Date:       2001-05-11 16:13:38
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Your correct. :(  

Thanks

-jason m

On Friday 11 May 2001 03:03, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2001 04:27, Jason Milliron wrote:
> > Version of kword: 1.0 using kde 2.1.1
> > Situation of crash:  Had gone back and was editing the document.  Moving
> > text around.  Then parts of the text started to disappear from the
> > screen.  I attempted to highlight the entire document.  This caused kword
> > to dump core.
>
> Suggestion: use KOffice-1.1-beta1. Some features are missing in that
> version, but KWord is on the whole much much more stable (it's a completely
> new beast).
>
> > My major problem is that I lost 3 pages (almost two hours of tedious
> > work). I guess I was wrong to assume that all modern work processors
> > autosaved. There seems to be a nameoffile.kwd~ file though.  Is there
> > some way to restore this "trash" file?  I really don't want to retype a
> > majority of my document.
>
> That file is the "last saved" version. Rename it to nameoffile.kwd and
> you'll get it restored. But isn't the .kwd more recent anyway ?
> It didn't crash when saving, so the .kwd should be more uptodate than the
> .kwd~.
>
> Note that KOffice-1.0 didn't have autosave. The current CVS has,
> so 1.1-beta2 will have, but no release has it yet.
> (In CVS, when an autosaved file is found, the koffice app asks whether
> you want to use it, so any manual intervention isn't necessary anymore).

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