Help recovering document
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:39 pm
I'm new so hope I'm posting in the right area. I appreciate any help.
I keep my diary on open office and today I was writing it up when we had a power cut. My laptop needs a new battery & so everything closed. When it started again, I was able to open my old diary page from last month but not the one I'm working on now. It salvaged one but not the other.
It had a tick on last months document & it opened fine but a red cross for February. When I tried to manually open it from my documents page, it gives this message first: If click ok I get this: I know I didn't lock it, so this makes me nervous
I don't even know how to lock it. (I was alone in the house & didn't leave my laptop from writing the morning in it so I know nobody else locked it)
If I click either option to read, I get a pattern instead of words: Is there anything I can do to salvage my writing, please?
It prob sounds silly, but it means a lot to me as it's my "recovery diary", I suffer from depression & it's a tool I've discovered works. Winter is my worst time so I've been practising different things and I really need it to progress. It was a whole complete month I realise, I'd forgotten it was March today
Any help greatly appreciated, thank you.
I use Open Office 3 and I use Windows Vista on an elderly Toshiba laptop
I keep my diary on open office and today I was writing it up when we had a power cut. My laptop needs a new battery & so everything closed. When it started again, I was able to open my old diary page from last month but not the one I'm working on now. It salvaged one but not the other.
It had a tick on last months document & it opened fine but a red cross for February. When I tried to manually open it from my documents page, it gives this message first: If click ok I get this: I know I didn't lock it, so this makes me nervous

If I click either option to read, I get a pattern instead of words: Is there anything I can do to salvage my writing, please?
It prob sounds silly, but it means a lot to me as it's my "recovery diary", I suffer from depression & it's a tool I've discovered works. Winter is my worst time so I've been practising different things and I really need it to progress. It was a whole complete month I realise, I'd forgotten it was March today

Any help greatly appreciated, thank you.
I use Open Office 3 and I use Windows Vista on an elderly Toshiba laptop
