20 page document changed to a weird 542 page document

[jupper]

hi, I saved my dokument to my pendrive, but when I opened it later it was just a lot of wierd signs and the dokument was turned from about 20 pages to 542 pages.
does someone out there know what could have happened?

thanks for the help!

[thomasjk]

Your document is totally corrupt. I see lots of ############### which is the tell tale sign. Since its in .doc format there is almost no chance of recovery. perhaps someone else will look at it and offer their opinion

[Hagar Delest]

Sadly, quite nothing to do, see: 22 pages term paper replaced with pound signs.
The file seems indeed empty.

Check the temporary folder of the system (see in OOo Tools>Options>OOo>Paths). If there are folders like sgmlf.tmp with a file having the same name inside, make a copy of that file, rename it in .odt and cross your fingers. If you have not rebooted, you might have those files still there.

[acknak]

Here's all I could get from it by extracting any plain text--nowhere near 20 pages I'm afraid.