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[-] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 22 points 7 months ago

Is this a Microsoft joke that I'm too LibreOffice to understand?

  • A bug in Microsoft 365 version 2409 is auto-deleting Word documents while saving.
  • The bug affects those documents that have capitalized "DOCX" file extension or include "#" in the file name.
  • Thankfully, the file is moved to the Recycle Bin which can be restored. For now, you can rename the file extension to avoid the bug.

That's interesting. I don't know anything about programming, but it's always funny how a small change somewhere can break software like this.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

I think it's because under the hood it uses # file names as temp files incase word crashes.

Definitely an edge case that should have come up. This is why you don't fire QA departments and expect devs to test everything.

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