Rory, thanks. Great info. Just bought HP Notebook with SSD drive. Much quicker, but looks like recovering stuff is iffy per you email info. I downloaded ODT file recovery program from the net. Hopefully useful if needed in future. Bob H.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Rory O'Farrell Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 4:50 PM To: Bob Herrold Subject: Re: open office writer On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:53:08 -0400 Bob Herrold <bjherr...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote: > All of a sudden I cannot open a word doc. A pop up wants a filter. Tried > selecting several different filter choices, but nothing worked. No problem > opening an excel sheet. Uninstalled and reinstalled Open office, same > problem. Rebooting PC didn’t help. > > Bob H Your file is corrupt, possibly damaged due to over-hasty power-off of computer or closure of laptop lid, before the OO housekeeping has been written to disk. Try the methods in this tutorial See https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=85038 for detailed instructions on how to a) use Previous Versions (W7 and later) to recover previous versions of the file b) recover your file as it was when you last opened or saved it, or as it was when it was last saved with AutoRecovery; c) find previous versions of the file in the folder it is located in, but which have since been deleted; d) un-delete the temporary files AOO wrote while you were editing the file, and then deleted. This will recover your file as it was when you last opened or you last saved it. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
