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[Guest]

My Autorecover setting in PowerPoint is automatically disabled. This has
occured a number of times.

I enable auto-recover, it stayes enabled for a while, and then later will be
disabled. It is not clear what event triggers the disable. This has happaned
a number of times, and is very anoying when you work with a laptop that
travels from wireless to docking station. It has caused me to loose changes a
number of times.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

My Autorecover setting in PowerPoint is automatically disabled. This has
occured a number of times.

I enable auto-recover, it stayes enabled for a while, and then later will be
disabled. It is not clear what event triggers the disable. This has happaned
a number of times, and is very anoying when you work with a laptop that
travels from wireless to docking station. It has caused me to loose changes a
number of times.

Perhaps windows changes profiles when shifting from docked to wireless?
Try enabling auto-recover in both states.

Better yet: get in the habit of pressing Ctrl+S whenever you've done any
significant amount of work in PPT. That lets the human, who's generally smarter
about these sorts of things, decide when and when not to save.

 

[Echo S]

I don't have a good answer for you, but I do have a question. Autorecover is
not a periodic safe feature, it's a true recovery feature for when PPT or
Windows crashes. If Autorecovery being off has caused you to lose changes a
number of times, it makes me wonder, is your computer crashing a lot or
something?

 

[Guest]

Auto-Recover requires a "Periodic Auto-Recover Save", enabled and configured
under Tools->Options, Save.
"[v] Save AutoRecover info every [x] minutes"

The checkbox for enabling this is what is getting disabled at "sometime" by
"something"

I certainly am in the habit of doing manual saves, but once in a while I
loose changes due to a reboot/shutdown or crash --- XP/Dell-drivers arn't
very robust when it comes to docking station usage.

I don't have a good answer for you, but I do have a question. Autorecover is
not a periodic safe feature, it's a true recovery feature for when PPT or
Windows crashes. If Autorecovery being off has caused you to lose changes a
number of times, it makes me wonder, is your computer crashing a lot or
something?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

My Autorecover setting in PowerPoint is automatically disabled. This has
occured a number of times.

I enable auto-recover, it stayes enabled for a while, and then later will be
disabled. It is not clear what event triggers the disable. This has happaned
a number of times, and is very anoying when you work with a laptop that
travels from wireless to docking station. It has caused me to loose changes a
number of times.