Autosave file location

[mm6169]

Hi there,

Using OSX 10.5.8 on Intel Core 2 Duo. I'm a Mac newbie. Please be gentle.

I was writing in a Doc file in Open Office. Made a load of ammendments over a 2 hr period then went to close it. When asked if I wanted to save changes, I pressed no. Idiot.

As the file was most probably autosaved over the period will these versions be saved anywhere? If so if there anyway of getting to them, opening and getting the text?

Thanks,

 

[Greg_Reez]

Open Office does autosave periodically, but to my knowledge, the autosave function exists only for auto recovery purposes.

Like if the program froze or became unresponsive, then you force quit it, and you relaunch it, it would automatically open whatever the last autosaved version was. By default, Open Office autosaves every 15 mins but you can change that in prefs under Load/Save.

When you chose not to save, the temporary autosaved file gets deleted, and your updates to whatever file you had open gets lost.