by Tech120 » Tue Jun 24, 2014 9:56 am
There is no Previous Versions tab under Properties for the document with which I experienced similar issues:
I first created a document in Wordpad, opened it in OpenOffice, edited it, saved it in the current format, and closed the file. I edited it in OpenOffice several times afterward over a few hours. Around 6:30PM EDT, I attempted to save and close it. The entire page became highlighted in light blue, like a shadow, and stopped responding. After a couple of minutes, the highlighting ceased and I closed the file before shutting down my pc.
When I rebooted a few hours later and tried opening the document, I got this popup, "General error. General input/output error." When I clicked OK, the popup and the now-empty document closed. I searched the internet for that error message and found nothing.
I was able to open it in Wordpad, but almost all the data was missing, all the research notes I c&p from online sources to read offline later-gone! Data that had been saved several times over-gone.
Is there any way to get it back?
OpenOffice 3.4 on Windows Vista