On 23/11/16 7:28 AM, Hagar Delest wrote:
Hi,
To be clear, there is absolutely no way to recover your file as it is.
At best, you can try to recover something from the temporary files,
see: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=84056
Have you made sure there was no back-up in the profile (if you had the
option Always create a backup copy checked in the options)?
Indeed, this is a problem known for quite some times. IMHO the most
critical one. But nothing done yet about that.
Very often, it is linked to power shortage during the save operation.
OpenOffice need some time to compress and write the file to disk.
If a user shut down his system before the file is saved to disk this
could happen.
If the user also save the file on a Cloud Drive it is more likely to happen.
And if a retired computer professional does this without creating
backups he has to live with the consequences.
Hagar
Le 21/11/2016 à 21:39, Dave Gibson a écrit :
Now, let me say that I'm a retired computer professional, and I
should know
better. I'm now a photographer and an author. I was 20,000 words
into a
novel targeted at 80,000 words. I opened my novel, and it was gone.
I saved it to Onedrive. Thankfully, a week ago, I also saved it to my
laptop's hard drive, but that was 10,000 words ago.
My 88 pages of novel is now 11 pages of hashtags. I've never seen or
heard
of anything like this before.
All of my other books open just fine.
I'm on a laptop using Windows 10. I'm using Open Office 4. What is odd
is that OO wanted me to register again, and when I try to open my
novel, it
asks what character set I want. Strange.
I see that I'm not alone in this problem, and it has been happening for
years.
Does anyone have an idea of how to recover an old version of an OO
document?
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