Hi :) Most serious data-recovery experts would first advise to stop using the drive at all. Data-recovery experts would work on a clone or image of the drive instead of the original.
That may mean stopping using the machine itself unless you are experienced with "Live Cd/Usb" sessions or if you can unplug the hard-drive and still run the machine. If the data is valuable then take the drive to a professional data-recovery service. it might be wise to get a foil bag or just wrap the drive in silver foil to avoid any slightest static charges doing any further damage in transit. If you are experienced with LiveCd/Usb or can be absolutely certain you can boot without any more read/writes happening to/from the drive then step 1 is to image the drive. Once you have cloned the drive then shut the machine down and unplug the damaged drive to make sure no changes happen to that one. All recovery efforts would be done to the clone/image NOT the original! >From the reported problem it sounds more like hard-drive failure than anything else. This typically happens to either ultra-new drives or ancient ones. If a drive is going to fail it usually does so in the first few months. If it survives that then it usually lasts for years assuming it doesn't get physically bashed around. If the drive is doing read/writes at a time when it gets shaken or receives a jolt or impact then that could damage the read/write heads or the surface of the platters. SSDs are better at surviving under those conditions. With external drives it is important to unplug the leads from the drive itself during transit as the connection between the drive and the lead is vulnerable to knocks. Even if the lead has become unreliable a proper data-recovery service will probably be able to recover the data. When you uninstall OpenOffice and then install LibreOffice the operating system will usually pick-up all the settings and configurations you had set with OpenOffice. Normally when you try to open LibreOffice it tries to recover the last files you were working on when you last closed it (or OpenOffice). It is possible to "get back to factory defaults" but doing an uninstall-reinstall is not the way to do that. It's been a decade or so since that was a good way to get any program back to factory defaults. As for grabbing the file-associations for MS formats that would only happen if you didn't have MS Office already claiming those files. Any files that were set to open with OpenOffice would have their file-associations left hanging when you uninstall OpenOffice and LibreOffice would grab those ones. Otherwise all your files would be unable to be opened by any program until after you had selected each file-type in turn and specifically told it which program to open with. The described problem sounds extremely unlikely to have happened in real life. If it really did happen and if it had happened to me i would be checking the physical connections of the hard-drives to make sure the wires were plugged in properly. In normal usage i am fairly aware of any unusual sounds that my hard-drive makes so i would probably have been more aware of an imminent failure. Other ways to recover files is to look for back-ups, perhaps older copies on external drives, usb-sticks, Cd, Dvd, emails, network file-shares and other machines where you might have worked on the files. Perhaps check temp or tmp folders. Regards from Tom :) On 28 October 2013 11:50, Gabriel Risterucci <cleyf...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/10/28 Werner F. Bruhin <werner.bru...@free.fr> > > > On 28/10/2013 04:10, Jan wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Dr. Jan Zeman > >> > > Has this really happended to you or ......? > > > > If it really has happened then you should seriously review on how you > > install software and even more important review your backup strategy any > > decent (even simple) backup strategy will prevent you from loosing files > > contains weeks of work. > > > Also, considering that document recovery is very unlikely to delete files > if canceled, or lose weeks of work if accepted (since at worst it restore a > backup made regularly by the software), there's probably something else at > work here. > > -- > 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 > -- 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