> As far as i know - it *should* have. Not save/overwrite the old file, > just create a new temp one. Which is detected in case of of chrash, and > recovered. > > As far as i know, OO does this, MS word does this - even vim does this! > That is why you can recover documents never ever saved. > > But i have seen cases where it haven't worked - looks like OO haven't > detected where the file was. Or it was never created. > > When that is said, i have used oo for about 1� year now, and can only > remember two bad crashes - and in only one case i was unable to recover. > I remember cursing word many, many times more Then have did my spouse run into a bug? The system was overloaded and soffice.bin was killed due to an out of memory condition. I expected that OOO would have recovered from this state in some way, but I could not determine where the backup/temp file was.