On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:37:47 -0500 "Keith N. McKenna" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rory and John; > > I am forwarding this reply from Rory to John in hopes that it will get > through as Rory was having trouble reaching John's e-mail address. > > Regards > Keith Thanks, Keith. Rory > > Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:15:31 -0800 > > John Suter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I need help in recovering a text file, a book, I have been writing and > >> saving every 15 minutes or so. > >> > >> My laptop running Windows 10 version 1511, IE 11.20.10586.0 and using > >> Apache Open Office 4.1.2 had a abrupt browser blank-out. Before > >> restarting my system to clear the problem, I saved the Open Office file. > >> After restarting my system, Open Office didn’t have any files I have been > >> working on in the platform que. I went to “documents” and opened the file > >> I was wanting to return to and it said it was restricted and could only be > >> seen in a read-only mode. However, when I said I wanted to see a copy, > >> all that was displayed were screens of “X”s. Can you advise me how to > >> recover? > >> > >> Thanks, John > > > > You should look in the backup and temporary directories pointed to by > > /Tools /Options /OpenOffice : Paths. Rename any files in those to the file > > type you were using and see if they contain your data. > > > > No matter what format you were working to, run an undelete utlity such as > > Recuva or PhotoRec and see if it will find some deleted temporary file > > holding some or all of your data. I'd start with Recuva or PhotoRec (you > > only need one of these, and the sooner the better, as c0ontinued use of > > the computer might overwrite any deleted image of your file). > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
