[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery
Hi :) Can you upload the file to Nabble, here, so that we can all have a look? Are you new to LibreOffice/OpenOffice? (Please let that be a yes!) When you try to open any document LibreOffice/OpenOffice sometimes worries that your last document wasn't saved properly before closing and asks if you want to recover that previous session first. Just Cancel that to open the real file you wanted to open instead of whichever file LibreOffice is worrying about. Normally when you open LibreOffice you do it by double-clicking on a file, right? Can you open LibreOffice as a program without doing that? In Windows it's something like Start - All programs - LibreOffice - LibreOffice then drag your file onto the grey areas inside the window that opens. Avoid dropping it on the white splash screen in the middle (although that probably wont hurt to much). Errr, are the file-sizes the same on all 3 hard-drives? Can you check that and let us know without actually opening them again? Also do you have copy on usb-stick, emailed to yourself or a colleague, or friend or anyone? You might be able to find that email and get the attachment re-saved somewhere useful? Did you upload it to the Cloud somewhere fairly recently so you could work on it at a different location? With a bit of luck you might only lose a small amount of the work and be able to pull it back together just by being calm and thinking about recent copies that might be floating around somewhere? I take it you have already looked in the back-up folder in your User Profile? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Good luck with this! Regard from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file-recovery-tp3126873p4056714.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery
please help! The file I was working on in libreoffice somehow got saved on all three of my drives in a corrupted format. A 75 page writer doc is opening up as a 7 page document, and ms word is unable to open it. saying that the file has been damaged, or is saved in the wrong format. I see that my auto recovery settings are set to save autorecovery data every 15 minutes. can you help me recover my file? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery
Hi. Does it look like the file has become much smaller. You could try copying the file and changing the extension on the copy to .zip. Unzip the file and then see if you can find your bulk of text, may be in content.xml. If it seems to be there then that could be your last resort to use that and re-format it. Steve On 2013-05-17 13:22, John Cuda wrote: please help! The file I was working on in libreoffice somehow got saved on all three of my drives in a corrupted format. A 75 page writer doc is opening up as a 7 page document, and ms word is unable to open it. saying that the file has been damaged, or is saved in the wrong format. I see that my auto recovery settings are set to save autorecovery data every 15 minutes. can you help me recover my file? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery
On Thu, 16 May 2013 21:22:51 -0400, John Cuda jrstar...@yahoo.com wrote: please help! The file I was working on in libreoffice somehow got saved on all three of my drives in a corrupted format. A 75 page writer doc is opening up as a 7 page document, and ms word is unable to open it. saying that the file has been damaged, or is saved in the wrong format. I see that my auto recovery settings are set to save autorecovery data every 15 minutes. can you help me recover my file? John What is your OS and are you having other problems reading these drives? The specific steps and file locations may be OS dependent. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery
Reopening Writer, I followed instructions on a recovery Wizard. An error message flashed on and then a document appeared, but a very old version of the document. Does not sound logic to me... To me, it sounds strangely familiar :( it has happened several times that I edited a (writer or impress) document, saved it, then some time later openoffice crashed. Auto recovery was often not able to recreate the saved document but gave me an older version instead. I have changed my habit now to never use the auto-recovered versions. If in doubt, I will make a safety copy of the regularly saved file, recover what LO gives me, compare the two versions, and in most cases I find the versions are either identical, or the one that I saved by hand is newer. This is something that has been bugging me for a long time, but it is also not easily reproduced (and of course happens more often when I'm in too much of a hurry to actually produce something good enough for a bug report ... See also here, at point 4.: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=11809 The least thing that should be done about it is not writing over the regular saved file with the autosave. I've never really busied myself with this to the point where I understand how it works, so I don't feel like I'm really able to tell where the error is and what should be done, but I'd like for something to be done. Zak -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
