Re: spreadsheet file is missing changes

[Ken Hill <ken scottshill com>]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 16:16 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-24-02 at 14:57 -0800, Ken Hill wrote:
> > I closed the screen of the laptop and I went to bed. The battery ran
> > out of juice, thus, the drive was probably not properly unmounted.
> > However, I saved the file before closing the screen of the laptop;
> > wouldn't that of saved the file even if the drive unmounted
> > improperly?
>
> Not necessarily. While the file was written to disk the inode may not
> have been written and so the system may not know to true location of the
> blocks belonging to the disk. 
> > 
> > The copy of my gnumeric file says the file size is "0" (zero):
> > 
> > $ ls -l race_cars.xml
> > -rw-r--r--  1 ken ken 0 2006-02-23 11:49 race_cars.xml
> > 
> > It is an XML file because I tried to gunzip it.
>
> I am more interested in the size of the original file.
>
> Andreas
>    
I recreated the spreadsheet last night. It wasn't very big in size:

$ ls -l gnumeric_bug_test.gnumeric
-rw-r--r--  1 ken ken 1554 2006-02-23 23:12 gnumeric_bug_test.gnumeric

I tried to replicate this agian last night, but I wasn't able to. I left this spreadsheet open; closed the screen on my laptop and left it running overnight until the battery ran out of juice. When I powered up my laptop this morning, I was able to open up this gnumeric file with out a problem.

Would it help to turn on the "auto save" feature in gnumeric? I prefer using gnumeric over OO Calc because it launches faster (I guess OO Calc may be getting a bit bloated).

Thanks for your help.

Ken Hill
Eugene, Oregon