Re: Restored Documents
On 2014-01-08, 10:01 AM Ernie Kurtz wrote: I appreciate your thorough answers, from which I often learn much. But on this one, I use OO 4.0.0, and there is no "Options" choice under "Tools." Can you tell me, please, where I might find it? Thanks. On Macs look in OpenOffice/Preferences. -- _ Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Restored Documents
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:01:21 -0500 Ernie Kurtz wrote: > Rob, > > I appreciate your thorough answers, from which I often learn much. But on > this one, I use OO 4.0.0, and there is no "Options" choice under "Tools." Can > you tell me, please, where I might find it? Thanks. > > ernie kurtz > ernestkurtz.com > > On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > > Another thing to try is to open Writer, go to > > Tools/Options/OpenOffice/Paths and note the location of the backup > > directory. Check that directory and see if there is anything there > > that looks right. If you are using a Mac, Options is under Preferences. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Restored Documents
Rob, I appreciate your thorough answers, from which I often learn much. But on this one, I use OO 4.0.0, and there is no "Options" choice under "Tools." Can you tell me, please, where I might find it? Thanks. ernie kurtz ernestkurtz.com On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > Another thing to try is to open Writer, go to > Tools/Options/OpenOffice/Paths and note the location of the backup > directory. Check that directory and see if there is anything there > that looks right. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Restored Documents
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Austin Shelton wrote: > Hi Everybody. > > I killed OpenOffice accidentally. When I started the program again the > restored document was gibberish. > > I'm sorry if this question has already been answered on the list. I am new to > the list. > Hi Austin, Do you have a saved version of the file that you can load? The auto-recovery feature relies on saving information about your document to disk every 15 minutes (by default). But if you did a hard shutdown at the time it was writing out the auto-recovery information, then it is possible this information is incomplete. Another thing to try is to open Writer, go to Tools/Options/OpenOffice/Paths and note the location of the backup directory. Check that directory and see if there is anything there that looks right. Finally, for the record, so we can correlate this against past and future reports, to see if there is a trend of issues, could you let us know: 1) What version of OpenOffice are you running? 2) What operating system and version? 3) What file type were you using? ODT? DOC? Something else? 4) Where were you saving? Local hard drive? Network drive? USB key? Portable drive? 5) Where did the document originate? Was it something you created from scratch? Or was it something you imported from another application? 6) Is there anything special or unusual about the file, in terms of size or content that might be related to any issues? I'd certainly appreciate it if you could take a minute or two to respond to these questions. It might not help get your file back, but it can help us understand better the circumstances under which these problem arises, and help users in the future. Regards, -Rob > -- > Austin/Jesse Shelton > ashelt...@gmail.com > https://sites.google.com/site/ashelton3/home > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Restored Documents
Hi Everybody. I killed OpenOffice accidentally. When I started the program again the restored document was gibberish. I'm sorry if this question has already been answered on the list. I am new to the list. -- Austin/Jesse Shelton ashelt...@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/ashelton3/home