LibreOffice AutoRecovery info lost when losing power?

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I had my laptop spinning accidentally until the laptop died.

I have the "Save AutoRecovery information every" checked and set to 15 minutes (default?).

However, when the Recovery took place none of the edits (after last save) that I made yesterday went into the recovered document.

Is there some logs that I can check to see what has actually happened here?

Since this is a misbehaviour on when losing power to a machine, maybe there's a bug already tracking this?

Did you check /home/<user_name>/.libreoffice/X/<user_name>/backup Replace X with your Libreoffice version. — Mitch, Sep 4, 2013 at 20:22
I don't have a directory named .libreoffice in my home directory. Should it be there by default? — Andy, Sep 4, 2013 at 20:59
Sorry, its /home/<user_name>/.config/libreoffice/X/user/backup Replace X with your Libreoffice version. — Mitch, Sep 4, 2013 at 21:21

Wilf · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-04 16:39:01Z

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Not sure, but recovery might only work for any unsaved work.

The 'I had my laptop spinning accidentally until the laptop died.' is not very descriptive.

answered Sep 4, 2013 at 16:39

Wilf

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I believe the statement was clear about that the edits that I did were not saved. Well, in Windows you'd typically go into sleep mode at some point when battery is low, but no such functionality kicks in when I am on my Ubuntu laptop. I cannot choose Hibernate in the power settings for "When power goes critically low" in the system settings.
– Andy
Sep 4, 2013 at 16:57
It should suspend by default - but that is probably dependent on your Desktop Enviroment e.g. GNOME, KDE...
– Wilf
Sep 4, 2013 at 17:20
Try checking your power settings about what it does when it battery power is low.
– Wilf
Sep 4, 2013 at 17:20
The only option that I can choose for "When power is critically low" is the "Power off" - "Hibernate" is grayed out, which seems to be a Unity thing disabling it by default for all users... What I really want with this post is to find out: 1. How can I troubleshoot? 2. Can LibreOffice gracefully handle if power is lost and no graceful shutdown has been made? E.g. take emacs where you have the recovery at your fingertips in the #<filename># file/buffer shadowing your <filename> file up to the last char you edited basically.
– Andy
Sep 4, 2013 at 20:53

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