timed save of active document to its original file

[carnish]

In this post we have a timed backup of the active file to a backup name.

[LibO 5.1.5 on debian 8.5] writer close without asking to save, in need of an AUTOMATIC Incremental saving function

Hello. Yesterday, I, by mistake, click on the “cross” button, lost a day worth of work ! I clicked on the cross button by mistake, but usually I don’t care, as LibO has always asked me to save my work. What wasn’t my surprise, when the window just shut up ! A whole day worth of work was lost. I would NOT have clicked on “do not save”, absolutely not. The auto-saves functon is put to 15 minutes, but the last “bak” file I could find was from this morning. How can it be ? I installed an add-o…

Is there a version to save the document to the same file that it was opened from? For example I have opened a.odt and have made changes to the document that I have not manually saved.

Now instead of creating a.odt.backup., the system writes to a.odt.

If there is no such version: For macro gurus, how could this macro be modified to this requirement?

[ajlittoz]

Isn’t this the description of a periodic File>Save action?

I have never written a macro, thus I don’t know if a periodically activated macro is possible. If yes, it should be pretty simple.