Nah, she lost it, because your Thinkpad suddenly rebooted. Investigate that first.

And must be a distro-specific thing, it's on here by default.

Oof. I think most of us have lost work like this. I kind of think it's a rite of passage. It's how you learn to save. Good luck with the rewrite!

Sounds like she learned a lesson in the value of building the habit of doing a quick ctrl-s every minute or so, no matter what program you are using.

10fastfingers.com for your daughter. Or any of the hundreds of other games and tests and practice tools. Being able to type well is an important skill in this life that she'll need.

On auto save: it should be a trivial option that's always on and always reliably saves -multiple- copies of your work

I can't recommend OnlyOffice enough. I just did a test repeatedly killing the application and the document is recovered with the default settings.

Learn to save often, but especially learn the limitations of the tools you have. It's not libreoffice's fault if you don't.

Lol. We came this far that forgetting to save is caused by shitty software...

My daughter lost...

We lost everything...

I forgot to save...

I was curious and found this thread.

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-writer-crash-and-autosave-is-off-by-default/92416/4

Apparently the newest version will enable auto save by default. Not sure why it wasn’t that way to begin with…

If you’re on a Windows PC oftentimes you can go to the user temp folder and find the working document there. %temp% in file explorer.

You might have to do a little digging to find out what/where it is, sometimes they’re nice and obvious in a folder named for the app creating it, sometimes it’s a string of nonsensical alphanumeric characters.

Also: You can go to the “Tools” followed by “Options” then go to “LibreOffice” and click on “Path”, temp and backup files are stored at the location listed there, too.

Either way, I highly, highly suggest you dig around for the lost doc in that folder. It’s saved my butt a couple times when I forgot to save.

Thinkpad spontaneously rebooting has some part in the blame here too, no? I mean that’s why this whole fiasco happened..

Thank you for posting this. I hadn't run into this problem, and now I won't.

Manual save made sense when a disk write froze the program for seconds and engaged the disk drive with sounds (which I miss a little; very reassuring) but today autosave ought to be fully expected. LibreOffice really should've had it on by default.

Manually save often. She learned the hard lesson all of us learn. I never rely on autosave anywhere. It does not always do it's job.

No Backup no pity

You lost it because you didn't save. You are a parent, it's time to take responsibility for your mistakes. Don't blame LO as if you were 13 y/o.