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Wed Aug 15 I got notification an update to OO was available. I had never had problems with this before, it always updated seamlessly and opened again with unchanged state in all my documents: even if I had left some unsaved and open it recovered them seamlessly. But this time the update seemed to fail, as I still have 4.1.2. And when it came up again, a spreadsheet containing my exercise logs since 2012 was missing. When I try to open it (it is still on the "Recent Documents" menu), OO reports "File not found". If I restart OO, I am offered the option of recovering it, but when I click "Start Recovery" I get "Recovery failed".

When I try to redo the update with "Check for updates", I get "Checking for an update failed." followed by "Error reading data from the Internet. Server error message: ."

Any ideas what I did wrong, and how I can get my log back?

Have you tried using whatever facility MacOS offers - Finder? - to search the filesystem for your document? It is extremely unlikely that upgrading any application will remove files you have created using that application.

eminch wrote:Wed Aug 15 I got notification an update to OO was available. I had never had problems with this before, it always updated seamlessly and opened again with unchanged state in all my documents: even if I had left some unsaved and open it recovered them seamlessly

I'm not a Mac user, but OO performing an automatic update seems peculiar to me. My experience is that one has to download the entire package, and then manually perform an update. Can you please post the URL from which you downloaded?

The update error has been reported as a bug - please see [Issue] Check for Updates feature fails

eminch wrote:it always [previously] updated seamlessly and opened again with unchanged state in all my documents: even if I had left some unsaved and open it recovered them seamlessly.

Never risk doing any update with any application open - you are asking begging, on bended knees, for trouble.

eminch wrote:But this time the update seemed to fail, as I still have 4.1.2. And when it came up again, a spreadsheet containing my exercise logs since 2012 was missing.

Forget the update - find your file. Use MacOS Search to search for all *.of? files, or *.odt, *.ods etc. Use MacOS to search for a word inside the "lost" file - eg if the file contains the word zebra in it, then search for zebra - it will find all files with zebra in their name or with zebra inside the file.

eminch wrote:When I try to open it (it is still on the "Recent Documents" menu), OO reports "File not found"

So the file cannot be found at its original location which AOO has remembered. Use MacOS Search to search for all *.of? files.

eminch wrote:When I try to redo the update with "Check for updates", I get "Checking for an update failed." followed by "Error reading data from the Internet. Server error message: ."

Download from http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html and install it.

eminch wrote:Any ideas what I did wrong

You did not save your file before doing the update. Never do that.

eminch wrote:how I can get my log back?

Get it from the backup you take each day. You don't take any backups? What do you expect?!!

See [Tutorial] How to find and un-delete AOO temporary files for

a) detailed instructions on how to recover your file as it was when you last opened or saved it, or as it was when it was last saved with AutoRecovery;

b) how to find previous versions of the file in the folder it is located in, but which have since been deleted;

c) how to 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 and is probably your best hope.

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robleyd wrote:Have you tried using whatever facility MacOS offers - Finder? - to search the filesystem for your document? It is extremely unlikely that upgrading any application will remove files you have created using that application.

Yes, thanks, I did think of that, and searched using Spotlilght for "Xlog", which returned only a hit on Xlog.xslx from 2014.

RoryOF wrote:

eminch wrote:Wed Aug 15 I got notification an update to OO was available. I had never had problems with this before, it always updated seamlessly and opened again with unchanged state in all my documents: even if I had left some unsaved and open it recovered them seamlessly

I'm not a Mac user, but OO performing an automatic update seems peculiar to me. My experience is that one has to download the entire package, and then manually perform an update. Can you please post the URL from which you downloaded?

The update isn't automatically invoked--I do have to click to initiate it--but once it begins, OO is shut down, the files are saved in some temporary form (i.e., even open unsaved files are saved for recovery after update), and the download and install proceeds, after which OO is restarted and the open files are re-opened. Usually. This time, there was no OO update and all but one open files were re-opened, the missing one disappeared.