[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery

2013-05-17 Thread Tom
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

[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery

2013-05-16 Thread John Cuda
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery

2013-05-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery

2013-05-16 Thread Jay Lozier
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

[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery

2011-07-09 Thread Zak McKracken
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