Did you only have the 1 .bak backup file. Just now observing what
happens on my laptop, when I save a document it is also saved as
"document name".ods.bak. 10 minutes after I make any change to the
document, but without saving it, another backup copy is saved as
"document name".ods_n.ods. n seems to be a number that changes from 0 to
1 during edits. May be these are the recovery backups.
If I then save the file the "document name".ods_n.ods file disappears.
Because your .bak file has no text I assume it was saved after the text
disappeared.
Steve
On 6/08/25 3:46 am, Mike Scott wrote:
On 04/08/2025 16:58, Virgil Arrington wrote:
This may not be helpful, but I have had similar experiences when
typing on a laptop with a trackpad. Sometimes, if I'm typing fast, my
thumb will inadvertently touch the trackpad, which will serve as a
mouse click on whatever the cursor happens to be hovering over at the
time. I have, on occasion, quite accidentally deleted words and lines
of text with my inadvertent thumb brushes. I have learned to be
careful to put the mouse cursor in a harmless location while typing.
But, when that happens, I quickly hit undo and the text returns. You
have already tried that and it hasn't worked, so as I say, it may not
be helpful.
Virgil
Thanks for the comment. I'd understand better what happened if the
undo/redo history hadn't been empty. I can of course reproduce
"accidentally" typing ^A instead of shift-A, and ^S instead of Shift-S
- which would leave just the text typed in-between both in the on-disk
file and on-screen. But in that case undo/redo are available, or at
least they are when I try this. OTOH both were very definitely greyed
out in my wife's case, and that I cannot reproduce without closing the
file completely and re-opening it.
Very strange.
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