Corrupted file/ASCII Filter

[Lewisbrite]

Hi everyone.

I was working on a novel earlier when my laptop crashed. I had time to save my file before I was forced to do a hard reset.

When I turned my laptop back on it asked me to register Openoffice, and now whenever I open the file I was working on it asks me to select my ASCII filter settings, which it's never done before, and when I click okay it gives me thirteen pages of ########################### rather than some hundred pages of what I was working on. I've tried opening a few different files and this is the only one that seems to have been affected. I saved it in ODT format, if that makes any difference.

I'm really, really desperate to recover that file. I've already tried the backup folder. Any help would be appreciated.

[Greengiant224]

lewisbrite:

it gives me thirteen pages of ###########################

Sorry to inform you but the file is corrupted beyond repair.
Did you make a backup using a third party backup tool?

When your laptop crashed it had very little time to write the data to the file, hence it becomes corrupt.
This can also happen if you hibernate the device without saving the file and closing AOO/LO first.
Another instance of this can happen when you hastily shut down the device whilst running/saving
to/from a USB drive.
The above is NOT a recommended way to operate an OS and or AOO/LO.

Hope this helps.

Greengiant224

[RoryOF]

As Greengiant223 says, your file is corrupted. Download an undelete utility such as Recuva or PhotoRec and see if it will find a deleted temporary or previous file. Do this first, as the less use a computer has before running one of these, the better chance of finding a deleted file. Look in the Backup and Temporary directories pointed to by /Tools /Options /OpenOffice /Paths, rename any files to type .odt and see if they contain some or all of your data.