Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google calc trouble Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:07:48 +0200 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <111vp0v$stoi$1@dont-email.me> <111vr5o$tgjf$2@dont-email.me> <1120nkp$16b4e$1@dont-email.me> <1125g8t$2hg7s$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hXZv2tOqINcuQrhnmxcnOA1XNd9HXmFoIerc/gJcxxsao3Ie8T Cancel-Lock: sha1:byCbvTKRdlrLyNlBjGAH6Bo2JGo= sha256:rXA7Zj6YXcUWLOo54+gqkUjAyXSM8M3ZzfB1vvrKT4o= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <1125g8t$2hg7s$2@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154331 On 2026-07-02 12:58, Arno Welzel wrote: > Carlos E. R., 2026-06-30 19:19: > >> On 2026-06-30 17:33, Arno Welzel wrote: >>> Carlos E. R., 2026-06-30 11:24: > > [...] > >>>> How do you a backup of a calc sheet that is corrupted the instant you >>>> use it? >>> >>> You back it up before opening it of course - and ideally in *many* >>> versions. My preferred solution is a Nextcloud server which holds every >>> version within the last 60 days and in addition I have Borg backup for >>> the host which goes back up to 6 months if neccessary. >>> >>>> Do you do backups every 10 minutes, of the calc sheet files you edit, >>>> every time you save the file? On a phone, while driving? >>> >>> No, daily. At the moment I have 60 versions of every important file for >>> the last two months and in addition 16 versions for the 4 months before >>> that (one version per week). >> >> Daily doesn't solve the problem I have. > > If the sheet does not open any longer, you can go back daily and check > which version is still useable. If *no* version is usable, then you have > chosen the wrong tool in the first place, sorry. A calc sheet program > which corrupts its own data is just broken. Which is what I am saying from the start, and that I switched to another app. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;