Lost all data in important Calc file
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 4:06 pm
Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum and so wanted to start off by saying thanks for the great info I've gotten from reading posts on this forum in the past.
I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue that came up today, at first glance it looks like I've lost all the data in an important calc file I was doing for my business, and I hope there is a way to recover it.
What happened: A file I've been working on all this week (no issues with it before) was open when my computer abruptly crashed last night. When I went to open the file this morning the icon looked different and it asked me to enter my name, a popup box with something along the lines of "need to re-register your version..." or something to that effect was what was displayed. I went through whatever process it asked me and when I finally could access the file it was completely blank, no formatting or anything in any cells. I tried to open it in a trial version of excel and just got a page of # signs.
What I've done so far: I found a few threads on this forum that recommended certain things, which I've tried to no avail:
- I renamed the file into a zip file as one threat suggested, in an attempt to unzip the contents.xml to view some of the data, unfortunately I keep getting an error that "the compressed file is not an archive" and so I haven't been able to do that.
- I eagerly read the info about Calc having a backup folder, went to the backup folder hoping to find my file and then was very depressed to see nothing there. Needless to say I have auto-backup turned on now (man i wish that had been on by default, my fault for not knowing about it though).
- Tried other Calc files (all my other ones work fine), and tried opening this file through "open file" when calc is already open.
My system:
I'm using Windows 10, & open office 4.1.5
I've got 6-8 hours into this file including a lot of thought put into the numbers, if anything can be recovered even just a wall of unformatted text for me to sift through that would still be very useful to me. I'm willing to offer some compensation via paypal as a thank-you to whoever can help me get this info recovered.
I'm new to the forum and so wanted to start off by saying thanks for the great info I've gotten from reading posts on this forum in the past.
I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue that came up today, at first glance it looks like I've lost all the data in an important calc file I was doing for my business, and I hope there is a way to recover it.
What happened: A file I've been working on all this week (no issues with it before) was open when my computer abruptly crashed last night. When I went to open the file this morning the icon looked different and it asked me to enter my name, a popup box with something along the lines of "need to re-register your version..." or something to that effect was what was displayed. I went through whatever process it asked me and when I finally could access the file it was completely blank, no formatting or anything in any cells. I tried to open it in a trial version of excel and just got a page of # signs.
What I've done so far: I found a few threads on this forum that recommended certain things, which I've tried to no avail:
- I renamed the file into a zip file as one threat suggested, in an attempt to unzip the contents.xml to view some of the data, unfortunately I keep getting an error that "the compressed file is not an archive" and so I haven't been able to do that.
- I eagerly read the info about Calc having a backup folder, went to the backup folder hoping to find my file and then was very depressed to see nothing there. Needless to say I have auto-backup turned on now (man i wish that had been on by default, my fault for not knowing about it though).
- Tried other Calc files (all my other ones work fine), and tried opening this file through "open file" when calc is already open.
My system:
I'm using Windows 10, & open office 4.1.5
I've got 6-8 hours into this file including a lot of thought put into the numbers, if anything can be recovered even just a wall of unformatted text for me to sift through that would still be very useful to me. I'm willing to offer some compensation via paypal as a thank-you to whoever can help me get this info recovered.