[Bug 137879] LO should know not to try and recover temporary files

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137879

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |WONTFIX

--- Comment #16 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #14)
> Bug 57414's summary has been modified since then, and is now about not
> trying to recover unmodified files.

Well, this bug is about temporary files, which may well have been modified, so
definitely not a dupe.

> > For example, if someone e-mails me a file, and I open it and then start
> > making changes to it for an hour, what should happen if LO crashes?

Nothing. You opened a file in an email, which is read-only and you can't change
it. So after the crash the file in the email is unchanged.

Now, you could ask: "Why was the file opened for me in Edit mode?" - and maybe
that's a valid question, but files in /tmp are just that: temporary, junk,
something you don't care about and can throw away. Your system administrator
can delete files in /tmp before you open them again.

> > I want to be able to have it recovery my hour's worth of changes when LO
> > restarts - even though I hadn't properly saved it to a reasonable location
> > yet.

That file may very well have been overwritten by something else with the same
name already. I don't think LibreOffice should not make the guess that you did
something weird like this.

...

but then, the very fact that you think this makes sense suggests maybe other
people think so too.

> I agree with Justin here. So would go with either "won't fix" or duplicate
> of bug 57414 again.

Grudgingly closing it then.

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