[Solved] How to "recover" my documents
[Solved] How to "recover" my documents
Sometimes when I open up one of my saved documents all of the work I have done is replaced by #'s. This has happened to me a few times and I was wondering if there is a way to recover my documents if this happens. I had just done like 10 hours of work yesterday and i opened my document to find everything replaced by #'s.
Last edited by Thamior on Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: How to "recover" my documents
How and where you save your documents to?Sometimes when I open up one of my saved documents all of the work I have done is replaced by #'s.
- Do not work directly on a portable device.
- Do not store your important documents in foreign file formats. Use the native, International Standard ODF fileformats.
- Always create more than one backup of your files onto different places.
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Re: How to "recover" my documents
I save my documents to my computer (When I am on the document I press CTRL+S, then go to this PC, Documents and into a file).
OpenOffice 3.1 on ACER
Re: How to "recover" my documents
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Which AOO/LO version are you using now really?OpenOffice 3.1 on ACER
Tibor Kovacs, Hungary; LO7.5.8 /Win7-10 x64Prof.
PortableApps/winPenPack: LO3.3.0-7.6.2;AOO4.1.14
Please, edit the initial post in the topic: add the word [Solved] at the beginning of the subject line - if your problem has been solved.
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Re: How to "recover" my documents
Ctrl S Saves the document, but it is best that you either close the document (/File /Close) or exit OpenOffice, (/File /Exit) which will prompt you to close the document; a document is held open until one of these commands is executed. If the computer is powered off too quickly, or allowed sleep with a file open, that file will be destroyed as the system gets confused with what to do with it.Thamior wrote:I save my documents to my computer (When I am on the document I press CTRL+S, then go to this PC, Documents and into a file).
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Re: How to "recover" my documents
OpenOffice 4.1.1.
I didn't check because I needed to get the question out as quick as possible so I could get help.
I didn't check because I needed to get the question out as quick as possible so I could get help.
OpenOffice 3.1 on ACER
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Re: How to "recover" my documents
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit button and add [Solved] to the start of the title. You can select the green checkmark icon at the same time.
Did you enable option Load/Save → Always create backup copy? If so, there is a copy of your document as it was the last time you opened it in the directory named in option OpenOffice → Paths → Backups. Options are set with OpenOffice → Preferences on a Mac, Tools → Options on other platforms. Using your operating system, copy the backup document to a safe place. Make a copy of that, then change the file extension .bak to the appropriate one (.odt, .ods, etc.). Open the renamed file.Thamior wrote:I was wondering if there is a way to recover my documents if this happens.
If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit button and add [Solved] to the start of the title. You can select the green checkmark icon at the same time.
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Re: How to "recover" my documents
A Calc spreadsheet column will display #'s when the column width is too narrow to display a numeric value. In that case just make the column wider.
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