Save, when does it not?

[cicero28374]

I have writer 2.3 and know the following happened which is against the law.
I was building a file with text entry and copy/paste and since I thought I had lost a file earlier, I did in fact hit the save function if FILE pull down after each entry of about three lines.
I Saved and closed and closed down the Windows XP2 system and this evening I opened the system, Office Writer and looked for recent documents. There are none within the last two weeks.
If I use Windows Search and look for docs created in last week there are none.
Have I just gone crazy or is there some rhyme or reason to this?
Help please.

[Hagar Delest]

How had you created the file? From scratch? or opened from your mail client? When you hit Save as, what is the location proposed? Have you looked here?

[acknak]

I wonder if this might be a system-level problem: are you sure that your system is clean? No viruses, worms, etc? All patches up to date?

Are you sure your system has the right date & time? Maybe the files were saved with the wrong time stamp--check the "Save As" location (as Hagar said), or try a search by file name.

Just my crazy thoughts; obviously OOo does not normally lose files this way.