[Solved] Recovering A File: ASCII & Weird Icon Question
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:30 am
Dear Forum,
My PC froze up with the Windows Blue Circle of Death whilst I was editing an odt doc I created on Sep 4th. It's a magazine article due today -- trying hard not to panic....
The computer totally froze -- couldn't get into Task Manager to shut down anything. Had to turn it off and reboot -- I know -- Not Good. When I restarted the PC, the usually reliable Open Office Recovery Tool failed. I am told the file is "locked by an unknown user" and the dreaded ASCII box appears -- when the ASCII doc opens, it is all hashtags. I understand this is Very Bad News. This has never happened in 20 years of using Open Office...
I thought of downloading Recuva, but Windows screams at me and says the file might hurt my PC -- will it? The download is on CNET.
Even though Open Office is set to automatically save files, I can't find any version of the file in the temp or backup folders. The back up folder is completely empty. The temp folder doesn't seem to have anything useful. I appreciate all the suggestions in this forum -- I tried a few of them, as you can see...no success
The document -- horary tma.odt -- can't be found in my documents folder. HOWEVER, it does exist on a Skydrive folder/drive -- but I really don't know what that is. The icon for the ODT file has two blue arrows on it -- I've never seen an icon like this -- what does it mean? None of my other ODT files on any drive look like this -- those I can open.
I am attaching that file because I see that this is what other forum posters have been asked to do. The file is 25KB -- which I understand is better than 0KB.
Truly, truly grateful for any kind assistance. Praying I do not have to recreate a 3000 word article from scratch
-- Elisabeth
My PC froze up with the Windows Blue Circle of Death whilst I was editing an odt doc I created on Sep 4th. It's a magazine article due today -- trying hard not to panic....
The computer totally froze -- couldn't get into Task Manager to shut down anything. Had to turn it off and reboot -- I know -- Not Good. When I restarted the PC, the usually reliable Open Office Recovery Tool failed. I am told the file is "locked by an unknown user" and the dreaded ASCII box appears -- when the ASCII doc opens, it is all hashtags. I understand this is Very Bad News. This has never happened in 20 years of using Open Office...
I thought of downloading Recuva, but Windows screams at me and says the file might hurt my PC -- will it? The download is on CNET.
Even though Open Office is set to automatically save files, I can't find any version of the file in the temp or backup folders. The back up folder is completely empty. The temp folder doesn't seem to have anything useful. I appreciate all the suggestions in this forum -- I tried a few of them, as you can see...no success
The document -- horary tma.odt -- can't be found in my documents folder. HOWEVER, it does exist on a Skydrive folder/drive -- but I really don't know what that is. The icon for the ODT file has two blue arrows on it -- I've never seen an icon like this -- what does it mean? None of my other ODT files on any drive look like this -- those I can open.
I am attaching that file because I see that this is what other forum posters have been asked to do. The file is 25KB -- which I understand is better than 0KB.
Truly, truly grateful for any kind assistance. Praying I do not have to recreate a 3000 word article from scratch
-- Elisabeth