Saving as CSV - no warning [solved]

[wdburgdorf]

Hi,

I just noticed that an original CSV file that I worked on for several hours last week, adding complex formulas and added sheets, I accidentally never saved as ODS. So my work is now lost.

When an original ODS is saved as CSV, there is a warning. But when a CSV is saved that has formulas or several sheets, there is none. I’d be surprised if I was the first person to have lost work that way.

Therefore I kindly ask the developers to add a warning when a CSV that has non-CSV features is saved.

Thank you.

[anon73440385]

Hello,

besides the fact that development/enhancement requests should go to bugzilla, this seems not to be true - at least not true for all versions and/or all circumstances. Just opened a .csv file, added an additional sheet and clicked on Save button and got:

Using

  Version: 6.3.2.2, Build ID: 98b30e735bda24bc04ab42594c85f7fd8be07b9c
  CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.12; UI render: default; VCL: kde5;
  Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US, Calc: threaded

Just a hint/question: Could it be that this warning annoyed you sometime in the past and you unticked Tools -> Options -> Load / Save -> General -> [ ] Warn when not saving in ODF or default format?

[mariosv]

And there are options to save the formulas in the sheet instead values, first time saving or ‘saving as’, editing filter settings.

[wdburgdorf]

@mariosv Thanks, that’s good to know. The issue was, though, that I never thought of checking optons (have used LO for years, first time this happened)

@anon73440385 I had version 6.06 installed, and thought, this had already been improved, meanwhile. So I installed the latest 6.2 and tried again - no warning!

Now I read your smallprint again and found the option you mentioned. I’m not sure I never unticked this. Must have been a very long time ago. So if this warning is on by default, and I switched it off myself, it’s my own error. I will certainly not switch it off again.
Thanks!

[anon73440385]

@wdburgdorf - did not test, but it may be also sufficient, if you unticked the option once in the past while saving a file and being warned (see the option in the warning message).

[wdburgdorf]

@anon73440385 This seems likely to have happened. Takes half a second and is quickly forgotten …

[cw]

I observe pushing the “Reset” button (bottom right) clears the [ ] Warn when not saving in ODF or default format. This is in Tools → Options → Load / Save → General → I am using 5.0.4.2

This is probably not the desired action for Reset button.

[wdburgdorf]

Answer by Opaque:

Could it be that this warning annoyed you sometime in the past and you unticked

Tools → Options → Load / Save → General → [ ] Warn when not saving in ODF or default format