Alan (below) and Alexandro (previous message) offer great advice on how to locate a recoverable version of a document. There are also practices and options for limiting the risk of document loss in the future.
For more specific advice on your immediate problem, there needs to be more information on how the document seems to have vanished. What operating system are you using, what version of Apache OpenOffice are you using, and how/where had you expected to find the document? Was there any unusual incident when you were last using the document? Also, if you open Apache OpenOffice directly, without opening a document, notice there is a pull-down (a little pointer) next to the Open... icon of a file folder. This will list the most-recent document you have been working with, including their locations on your machine. If you click on the folder icon instead, OpenOffice will open the last folder you were working on documents in. Inside applications, you can see that list in the File - Recent Documents menu selection. If any of the suggestions (above and below) work for you, please report that so there will be more knowledge on dealing with this kind of situation. - Dennis PS: You have reached a public mailing list on which volunteers contribute to questions from other users like themselves. For any follow-up, please reply to users@openoffice.apache.org where expert users can offer further advice and others can learn the solutions others have found. Advisors on this list do not promise to respond to questions sent directly to their email addresses. To observe questions and solutions posted to the list, you are welcome to subscribe to users@openoffice.apache.org by sending an e-mail with any subject to users-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org from the mail account where you wish to receive posts made to the list. The OpenOffice Forums have an extensive knowledge base at https://forum.openoffice.org/ that you can browse through as well. -----Original Message----- From: Alan B [mailto:abo...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 05:59 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: document recovery On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Angie and Arty <anganda...@talktalk.net> wrote: > Hi while writing a lengthy document it seems to have vanished how do i > recover the pages please. > I've done a little digging and this is what I found to suggest you try... If you're using Windows be sure to check in Trash to see if it might be there. Otherwise open OpenOffice and... Possibility 1 - Select "Tools | Options" from the menu Expand the "Load/Save" branch and select "General" Review the "Save" options. .. Is "Always create backup copy" selected? If it isn't tick it to avoid such losses in the future. .. If it is selected then Expand the "OpenOffice" branch and select "Paths" Note the location of the "Backups" path then open that folder to see if the file is there. If "Always create backup copy" wasn't selected then try Possibility 2 - Select "Tools | Options" from the menu Expand the "OpenOffice" branch and select "Paths" Note the location of "Temporary files" Open that folder. Examine the contents of that folder and any sub folders to see if your file might be there. If none of these work, and again if you're using Windows, get a file undelete utility and see if it can recover the file. I haven't used any of the following so cannot attest to their quality or liklihood of success. This first I'm suggesting because it's free and open source software so, if gotten from the link provided, I don't expect it will have any unwanted software or malware. Kickass Undelete - http://kickassundelete.sourceforge.net/ This next is commercial software with a free version available. I've used a different Piriform product for years found it to be a quality product and never gotten any malware from them so I trust Piriform. Recuva - https://www.piriform.com/recuva Last, if you want to look yourself for undelete tools, take a look at this article for suggestions. http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools Good luck. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
