https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126990

orcmid <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from orcmid <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to tinaconroy0718 from comment #0)
> I saved a file not 2 hours ago and when I opened it again the format was
> wrong and all my text was #. The whole document just #########. This has
> happened before. I do not want to rewrite it all again. Is there a way to
> recover the text I had before?

Generally, no.

When this happens, however it happens, that is really the content of the file
and that is all there is.

The best precaution is to not save over the previous copy but save with a new
name (put a date in the name or use a sequence number).  Then you at least can
fall back to the one you made the failed one from.  This precaution works for a
number of other problems as well.

If you want, you can upload the file as an attachment here, and we can inspect
it to confirm whether there is recoverable content.

This is the first of the cases identified in Issue 126846.

I am extracting the essential information here so we have an identified issue
for this individual case.  I failed to find an existing separate issue about
it.

"Hagar Delest has carefully listed the posts where users have lost data at 22
pages term paper replaced with pound signs, where he has collected over two
hundred (224 to date) cases."  That is at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17677

The forum topic includes some cases beside the "#" case.  This issue is for
tracking the "#" issue only.

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