Hi all. Sorry I'm having to ask here, but getting any info like this from the OO/LO people seems hopeless. Anyhow, what I'm wanting is just a simple way that, each time I save a file, rather than storing versioning information inside the file, it instead stores it as a new file with a new name. Sorta like, if I open the file "Doug's awesome sauce (2017-04-18).odt", make some changes, and then save it, the file automatically is resaved as "Doug's awesome sauce (2017-08-31).odt". Of course, on days when I'm making multiple saves on a file, it would just continue using the existing filename (ie, Doug's awesome sauce (2017-08-31).odt if it were from today) until it reaches 12 midnight at which point the filename would update to "Doug's awesome sauce (2017-09-01).odt". And of course, for the ultra paranoid, a time stamp could be appended to that, or just version ID's like 001, 002, etc.
The idea for doing versioned files by filename rather than internal versioning came from way back in the Windows 95 days when there was a problem with files being randomly corrupted upon save, causing me to lose everything. I lost entire manuscripts that way, and said method of versioning has saved me countless times before when my working file would get corrupted or truncated for reasons I can't put a finger on. Stuff would just "go away" for no good reason. Thus versions by filename is a real lifesaver when you're working with 100k+ word documents. Right now I do this versioning by hand. But I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to do this automatically from within either Open Office or Libre Office. And if no such plugin exists, how could I request that one be made? It'd be super helpful for me. Thanks.
The idea for doing versioned files by filename rather than internal versioning came from way back in the Windows 95 days when there was a problem with files being randomly corrupted upon save, causing me to lose everything. I lost entire manuscripts that way, and said method of versioning has saved me countless times before when my working file would get corrupted or truncated for reasons I can't put a finger on. Stuff would just "go away" for no good reason. Thus versions by filename is a real lifesaver when you're working with 100k+ word documents. Right now I do this versioning by hand. But I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to do this automatically from within either Open Office or Libre Office. And if no such plugin exists, how could I request that one be made? It'd be super helpful for me. Thanks.
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