Re: When AbiWord crashes in WinXP, is the current file saved?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Richard L. Dery wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:01:51 -0700
> From: Richard L. Dery <dickdery@teleport.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: When AbiWord crashes in WinXP, is the current file saved?
>
>
> I have a client running AbiWord 2.4.x on a HP a1129n Pavilion computer
> (WinXP SP2). Trying to get her to not spend $149 for the MS Word Trial
> version that came installed on her computer.

(Dare I suggest OpenOffice.org? It must be at least worth suggesting
before your client puts down $150. In fact it is worth making sure she is
aware of Wordpad, a person I showed it to was actually pleased it didn't
annoy him with all those red squiggles making a poor attempt at correcting
his spelling.)

> The problem is, AbiWord keeps "crashing," or "blowing up," to use her
> words.

What version of abiword did you install?

Clearing out your old Abiword.Profile might help (this is equivalent of a
reset to defaults) but might make no difference.

> I've read that if the plugin version is not the same as the executable
> AW will crash. This is not the problem.

This used to be a lot worse than it is now and things are a lot less
brittle but having all the pieces be of the same version is still
recommended

> Because of time constraints I'm not able to get together with my client
> to sit down and solve this issue, but I do have a some questions:

> 1. Are there any random keypresses that will cause AbiWord to close
> abruptly (other than Alt+F4)?

Not as far as we know (not as far as I know, you might want to check
bugzilla). If there were we'd be trying to fix them.

> 1a. Are there any keypresses in MS-Word that can crash AW?

Not as far as we know (not as far as I know, you might want to check
bugzilla).

You question is not entirely clear either, why would a keypress in one
application cause another seperate application to crash?

> 2. When AW crashes in Windows, is the current file saved somewhere?

If I recall correctly a document.CRASHED file is created in the same
directly at the original file. (There are some cases where the crash is
irrecoverable, and Abiword cannot save you if you cut the power
competely.)

> 2a. Does it save it with a particular extension?

I think it was .CRASHED

Best of luck

--
Alan H.
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