Every time I open a data file and make any changes I then save it with that day's date added to the title. That way you will always have multiple copies and can go back to an uncorrupted version if necessary. When I send someone a file their name in addition to the date is added.
This is in addition to regular complete back ups of everything on my computer to an exterior & portable hard-drive, which is stored in a separate building. I like LaCie and I don't trust any version of the cloud. You have just reminded me I need to start another backup system for a new and separate technical laptop. Doesn't help you now but may in the future. Sorry you have this problem and it may be a very small comfort to know that most of us have worked out our sometimes very personal backup strategies after some catastrophic event. Good luck Lucetta > On Apr 10, 2017, at 2:31 AM, Dave <nore...@tasit.net> wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: International Aircraft Collection <i...@iaircraft.co> > To: users@openoffice.apache.org <users@openoffice.apache.org> > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:42:41 +0000 > >> Helllo, >> >> >> I just lost all my work on this page. All my years work is now gone. >> >> >> Peaseeeee help me restore it. Please see attached file >> >> >> Best Regards >> >> James Smith > > Hi James, > > Sorry to say that there is nothing in your file to restore/recover, > because it contains nothing but 32,768 bytes of zeros. So unless you > have a backup, your work is permanently lost. > > For future reference I suggest: > > 1. You save your work in ODF (*_O_*pen*_D_*ocument *_F_*ormat ISO/IEC > 26300:2006 standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODF), not the old > MS Excel binary format. > If an ODF file becomes corrupted there is more chance of recovery. > > 2. If you don't already make backups of your important files, you > should do so. There are numerous options for backing up computer > files and many of them are free. > > Regards > > Dave > > -- > Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to > this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will > never be read. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org