Here is John's reply to Rory's advice. He sent it top my e-mail instead of to the list so please excuse the mess of top and bottom posting and threading issues. I will reply privately to John and explain that he should reply only to the list and not anyone's e-mail address.
Regards Keith >> >> Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:15:31 -0800 John Suter >>> <john-su...@sbcglobal.net> 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). >>> >> >> > >
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