[mso] Re: auto recover
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:35:55 -0600
My experiences closely match yours. I've always left auto-recover on and
have only had it fail to recover a few documents versus the many it has
saved. But part of my success is probably due to the fact that I don't
have the patience to mess around with complex formatting (I really
despise many of the things done by document designers to distract me
from usable text, anyway) and the only time I tend to write something
approaching the size of a book is either by an automation process or
when I'm writing email.<g>
Were I dealing with complex documents, I'd likely be as critical of
auto-recover as most of my Word contemporaries are. The kinds of
beautiful productions that folks ask Dian to produce make me crazy when
I'm trying to code a solution for them, let alone trying to reproduce
her formatting and designs. I'm pretty sure that doing the kind of work
she does would dictate that I turn auto-recover off and start using some
more reliable method of protecting my work.
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: auto recover
>
>
>
> I just want to add to this autorecover conversation that, in
> my experience, it is more reliable when the computer
> completely crashes than it is when you just end task on the program.
>
> When I worked helpdesk and people would call in a panic and
> say "Word is locked up and I don't want to hit ctrl+alt+del
> becuz I will lose all the work I haven't saved", we would
> often tell them, "Well, this is a gamble, but since you are
> going to lose everything anyway, let's try it." Then we
> would tell them to just hit the power button on the front of
> their machine....and 8 times out of 10, autorecover DID work
> when they did this. But, it RARELY works when you just use
> ctrl+alt+del to end task.
>
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