This won't help you with what's already happened, but I always back everything
up by making a pdf copy and updating the pdf every time I update the document.
From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net>
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: My entire novel was replaced with hashtags.
On 11/22/2016 02:28 PM, Hagar Delest wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To be clear, there is absolutely no way to recover your file as it is.
> At best, you can try to recover something from the temporary files,
> see: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=84056
> Have you made sure there was no back-up in the profile (if you had the
> option Always create a backup copy checked in the options)?
>
> Indeed, this is a problem known for quite some times. IMHO the most
> critical one. But nothing done yet about that.
> Very often, it is linked to power shortage during the save operation.
>
> Hagar
>
>
*"Indeed, this is a problem known for quite some times. IMHO the most
critical one. But nothing done yet about that."*
I bet if more people knew that, there would be a lot fewer people using
OpenOffice!
I'm glad I'm not using OO. Nor it's fork, LibreOffice. For other
reasons, but this one is a lulu!
--doug
> Le 21/11/2016 à 21:39, Dave Gibson a écrit :
>> Now, let me say that I'm a retired computer professional, and I
>> should know
>> better. I'm now a photographer and an author. I was 20,000 words
>> into a
>> novel targeted at 80,000 words. I opened my novel, and it was gone.
>>
>> I saved it to Onedrive. Thankfully, a week ago, I also saved it to my
>> laptop's hard drive, but that was 10,000 words ago.
>>
>> My 88 pages of novel is now 11 pages of hashtags. I've never seen or
>> heard
>> of anything like this before.
>>
>> All of my other books open just fine.
>>
>> I'm on a laptop using Windows 10. I'm using Open Office 4. What is odd
>> is that OO wanted me to register again, and when I try to open my
>> novel, it
>> asks what character set I want. Strange.
>>
>> I see that I'm not alone in this problem, and it has been happening for
>> years.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea of how to recover an old version of an OO
>> document?
>>
>>
>>
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