https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126869
--- Comment #62 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to John from comment #61) I have done a quick search of the forum and I am now convinced that "files full of ####" result from AOO or the PC hanging or crashing. See Issue 107847 - File content changed to hashes at crash or power loss which suggests it was introduced at v3.0. I collected these where users described how it occurred: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=92880 My computer crashed due to no electricity (without battery) but I thought saving the file was completed before the crash. I saved the edited odt more than once during the writing process but I could not find any previous versions. As I restarted the computer and tried to open the odt it was corrupted. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=104676 I opened it and had been working on it for few hours, saving it every 10 minutes or so, when my computer froze and showed a grey screen. As this hadn't shifted despite my best efforts I had to do a forced shut down after about half an hour. When I restarted the computer it was all fine apart from the document I had open on the screen where the text had been replaced by ###### If it helps then the file name was just Writing https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=100754 while I was playing a video my lap just outright wnent nuts, even though the battery was fully charged, and my screen froze and I was unable to coninue playing the video. However, at the moment I was just saving this document of around 40 pages to my OneDrive cloud and I had to reboot my entire computer. As I turned my laptop on again I openede immediatly Open Office, and weirdly enough it asked me to register my program online and choose a language for my program, and as I searched thourg recently opened files I found nothing, and now I have even trouble to efficiently run Word or Open Office. And my document as I open it, it just reads "########", there are no words on it. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=92880 My computer crashed due to no electricity (without battery) but I thought saving the file was completed before the crash. I saved the edited odt more than once during the writing process but I could not find any previous versions. As I restarted the computer and tried to open the odt it was corrupted. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=90475 ... three OO Writer documents ... created and saved on C: disk. ... I saved the updates (waited till savings are finished) but unfortunately have not closed all documents. ... I put my notebook in Standby status [overnight] to continue early morning finishing the documents. I just selected Standby and closed Laptop. Today early morning I opened laptop (screen) but could not start the notebook. [ie PC shut down overnight] So I had to shut down and newly start. ... as I tried to open the first document (I worked for 2 days on) it again opened with window message "ASCII Filter Options" and as I clicked further the documents was full of hashtags. Other 2 documents from yesterday I could open and they are Ok. Only the one document which is most important is not ok. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
