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Bunch of #'s
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:06 am
by jasonlolwut
my 6 page work turned into a bunch of #'s
can anyone help me ?
Re: BUNCH OF #'s
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:12 am
by acknak
So sorry, it's damaged beyond recovery. The file contains nothing but zeros.
Re: BUNCH OF #'s
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:14 am
by jasonlolwut
nothing can be fixed ?
Re: BUNCH OF #'s
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:03 am
by Jan_J
Not from this file. There is a minor chance that some regions of the media contain complete copy of previous version(s) of your document. You may try to recover it using standard tools for file recovery -- like photorec,
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec. The shorter time of disk working after file deletion, the larger chance to do it.
Re: Bunch of #'s
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:52 am
by Hagar Delest
Sadly, quite nothing to do, see:
22 pages term paper replaced with pound signs.
Any power shortage for example? It's a common root cause of such problem.
Check the temporary folder of the system (see in OOo Tools>Options>OOo>Paths). If there are folders like sgmlf.tmp with a file having the same name inside, make a copy of that file, rename it in .odt and cross your fingers. Else, I hope you had a backup (or a copy in a mailbox)...
NB: it seems that there are less reports about this with AOO 3.4.1.