Absolutely desperate for a simple text editor! - Page 2

bored28 · 07-17-2006, 01:28 PM

Wow, now people are relying on software to save documents for them because their too thoughtless to do it on their own. I'm in the process of writing a dissertation and every night, I end up "getting in the zone" of writing. However, as stange as it may sound, I seem to have no problems remembering to save my work at intermittent intervals. There must be something wrong with me.

tlarkin · 07-17-2006, 01:35 PM

I type very fast, it took me a matter of minutes to type out a 5 page layout of the projects we had listed. I don't think to save every 1 minute or 30 seconds.

I do mostly save, and have it set to auto save every 60 seconds. The time my power went out just happened to be as I was typing and I didn't even think about saving it. MS word had just saved it for me.

However, I agree with you, bored28, you always need to save and back up your data whenever you can.

ThreeDee · 07-21-2006, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by guardian34


	That's nice… for a word processor. What happens if your system spontaneously reboots while the auto-save is in progress?

Just save the darn doc as a .txt file! And what is the chance that Mac OS X will crash in the 2 seconds (or less) it takes to save? Abiword also makes a backup copy.

07-17-2006, 01:28 PM	#21
bored28 Major Leaguer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 355	Wow, now people are relying on software to save documents for them because their too thoughtless to do it on their own. I'm in the process of writing a dissertation and every night, I end up "getting in the zone" of writing. However, as stange as it may sound, I seem to have no problems remembering to save my work at intermittent intervals. There must be something wrong with me.

07-17-2006, 01:35 PM	#22
tlarkin League Commissioner Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 11,352	I type very fast, it took me a matter of minutes to type out a 5 page layout of the projects we had listed. I don't think to save every 1 minute or 30 seconds. I do mostly save, and have it set to auto save every 60 seconds. The time my power went out just happened to be as I was typing and I didn't even think about saving it. MS word had just saved it for me. However, I agree with you, bored28, you always need to save and back up your data whenever you can.