OpenOffice ate my book «Q23»
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OpenOffice ate my book «Q23»
i am devastated open office ate my manuscript it opens but now there is just symbols . I am super upset it is months of work gone .
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Re: open office ate my book
Hi and welcome to the forum!
See: [Tutorial] The Dreaded Pound Signs: file reduced to ####.
Good luck. I hope you had backups.
See: [Tutorial] The Dreaded Pound Signs: file reduced to ####.
Good luck. I hope you had backups.
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Then, please upload your file here. We will examine it. But - in my opinion - there is not any hope...no i ned help hoping some one can fix the file for me
Suggestions for the future work:
- Change to LibreOffice
- Always create more than one backup copies of your important documents.
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Please, edit the initial post in the topic: add the word [Solved] at the beginning of the subject line - if your problem has been solved.
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Usually such a problem is caused by over-hasty user closedown of a computer or shutting a laptop lid before the drive has finished writing.
I suggest you download an undelete utility and run it on your hard disk as soon as possible. PhotoRec might be a suitable application; there are others.
I suggest you download an undelete utility and run it on your hard disk as soon as possible. PhotoRec might be a suitable application; there are others.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Re: OpenOffice ate my book
If your file is full of #### characters there is no hope for the file - there is no user data in it. See Why is my Writer file full of ##### (nulls)?
See [Tutorial] How to find and un-delete AOO temporary files for detailed instructions on how to
a) use Previous Versions (W7 and later) to recover previous versions of the file (is there something similar on MacOS and Linux?);
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) find any temporary files AOO wrote while you were editing the file but which have not yet been deleted;
e) un-delete the temporary files AOO wrote while you were editing the file, and then deleted. d) and e) will recover your file as it was when you last opened or you last saved it.
If you cannot follow the instructions ask someone with more PC skills to help you. Act quickly - the longer you wait the more likely any deleted temporary files are to be overwritten and therefore lost.
I can never understand why people don't backup important work. It would be a matter of a few seconds to get the file from a backup.
See [Tutorial] How to find and un-delete AOO temporary files for detailed instructions on how to
a) use Previous Versions (W7 and later) to recover previous versions of the file (is there something similar on MacOS and Linux?);
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) find any temporary files AOO wrote while you were editing the file but which have not yet been deleted;
e) un-delete the temporary files AOO wrote while you were editing the file, and then deleted. d) and e) will recover your file as it was when you last opened or you last saved it.
If you cannot follow the instructions ask someone with more PC skills to help you. Act quickly - the longer you wait the more likely any deleted temporary files are to be overwritten and therefore lost.
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See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Unlike the windows version I never found a backup option and since I am disabled and live on very little a month open office was my only option to work with- and yes it is full of the hash tags .Thank you for your initial snark though sure made me feel even better about all this!
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
yeah I just found out it is dead I will look into libre if it is more stable -Zizi64 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:34 amThen, please upload your file here. We will examine it. But - in my opinion - there is not any hope...no i ned help hoping some one can fix the file for me
Suggestions for the future work:
- Change to LibreOffice
- Always create more than one backup copies of your important documents.
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Before doing anything else, run an undelete utility; you might not recover all, but there is a good chance you will recover some of your document.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Some journaling file systems and cloud storage services does file versioning. Alas, Apple's file system and iCloud seem to depend on the client app to request "new version", judging from what it says on Apple's support pages. May still be worth looking into.
Re: OpenOffice ate my book
If you actually read what I said you will find it was not a snark, nor even about you. It was about my not understanding people who don't backup important work.
LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
Re: OpenOffice ate my book
An undelete utility will search the drive for a now deleted working copy. The sooner this is done, the better the chance of a successful or a partial recovery.
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Mac FAQ Q23: How do I backup OpenOffice files on my Mac?tygertyger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:52 pm Unlike the windows version I never found a backup option …
Mac FAQ Q24: How do I restore OpenOffice files from backups?
If your machine has a solid state disk (SSD), recovery of deleted files is unlikely because the SSD sets that storage to zeros as soon as the file is deleted, thus there is nothing to recover except zeros. Use backups to ensure that you can restore your files if they become damaged.John_Ha wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:48 pm See [Tutorial] How to find and un-delete AOO temporary files for detailed instructions …
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Re: OpenOffice ate my book
Sometimes it does not work like this because actions have to be made on your machine.
That's what is explained in the various topics linked.
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