Tim: >>>> I was helping someone come to terms with computing a while back, and >>>> every time they closed a document, they'd be asked about saving it, and >>>> they'd always say yes, no matter what. Anne Wilson: >>> But at least it's the safe option. Tim: >> But it wasn't. They were losing data and keeping broken copies. They >> were saving unintentional changes to documents, irretrievably losing the >> originals. Likewise, they were saving what were meant to be temporary >> changes to documents (bit they didn't want printed, but still wanted in >> the file). Anne Wilson: > Sorry, but there's no way on earth you can protect data from people who refuse > to use the brain. I know that, but I was arguing the point that it's not a "safe" option. >>> So you don't consider print settings for the document to be a real >>> change? >> I don't. If I'd changed printer settings, perhaps. But just printing >> the document, no. The "document" hasn't changed. Data about it may >> have, if you keep track of how many times it's printed. But in the >> usual sense of whether some document has changed, refers to the actual >> content. > That I had to test, as I had never seen it happen. I opened a document in > OOWriter, one that I knew had been previously printed. I accepted the > printer settings and printed it. I then closed it. No dialogue - it just > closed. With prior versions a default option was set that printing did that, with later versions it doesn't (thankfully). Other word processors run differently.
