Lost document in Abiword

[Hairyloon]

Yesterday I managed to forget to save my document before shutting down. (I've got a nasty cold & my head is full of fugg).
I was using Abiword, and I didn't notice 'till this morning that the default setting for auto-save is "none".

So is there any way of retrieving the lost work?

[Simian Man]

That sucks, it's unlikely that you will find it, but I would look in the /tmp directory to see if abiword dumped anything there. But stuff tends not to stay there for very long.

[Boricua]

Originally Posted by Hairyloon

Yesterday I managed to forget to save my document before shutting down. (I've got a nasty cold & my head is full of fugg).
I was using Abiword, and I didn't notice 'till this morning that the default setting for auto-save is "none".

So is there any way of retrieving the lost work?

Sorry to say it, but I don't think so. My brother once had a similar problem. In his case Abiword just crashed. We tried to retrieve the document without success. After that episode, I suggested him to use openoffice.org instead. No problems since then. I do like Abiword, but document recovery hasn't worked well for us.

[Hairyloon]

Ah well. It's my own silly fault, placing too much faith in my system.
But if any of the people that compile the distributions read this, can I suggest that the default setting for a new install is to have auto-save enabled?
I was quite prepared to give Abiword a go, but this is enough to send me back to Openoffice. Other people might go back to Windows over it.