On 04/09/2017 11:31 PM, Dave wrote:
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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
In addition, The "Always create a backup copy" should also be ticked.
That is one of the first things I _always_ do when installing AOO.
A lot of these complaints could be solved by shipping AOO with this
option ticked by default, instead of the current "opt-in" philosophy.
Note that since AOO replaces ".odt" with ".bak", rather than using the
safer ".odt.bak" for the backup, there is a risk of, for example,
overwriting a document backup with a spreadsheet backup of the same
name. That should not happen and may be a bug. Before someone flames
AOO for this, this is not unique to AOO, LibreOffice has the same
"features".
Girvin Herr
