Re: Saving unaltered documents

From: Cliff Laine <loobyloo_at_loobynet.com>
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 12:48:58 CEST

At 11:37 12/09/05 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
>> Hello All
>>
>> I'm having a bit of trouble finding the place (or hack) where I can stop AW
>> from asking if I want to save before closing documents (like my telephone
>> address book) I have simply opened to view, without making any alterations
>> to. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful.
>
>Any change at all will be considered an alteration even if it might seem
>like nothing has changed so it is likely you are changing something
>without necessarily realising.
>
>Also because of the way the Abiword Microsoft Word exporter works and as
>there is a small risk not all information will be presevered (like certain
>types of embedded files) we must insist you "Save As".

Thanks for that Alan. I think that's more likely it, because it even
happens where I open a new document by accident and immediately go to close
it.

>
>Please describe in more detail what Operating System you are using (and
>be as specific as possible about what version) what version of
>Abiword you are using and exactly what kind of file you are looking
>at then hopefully we will be able to clarify what is going on.
>

The OS is W98 2nd ed 4.10.2222 and the version of AbiWord 2.2.9.

Yours

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