Depends how desparate you are, you might try turning off swap, "dd
if=/dev/hdx of=swapdata" where hdx is your swap partition device. Then
turn swap back on and then use "less swapdata" to hunt through your swap
file to see if there happened to be any of your document swapped to disk
at the time of the crash that hasn't been overwritten since. There's only
a low percentage chance of finding anything useful though, might be easier
to retype.
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Myles Byrne wrote:
> Hello Slug,
>
> I've just had a very unfortunate experience where openoffice (1.1) has
> crashed on me and taken down the entire gnome session with it.
>
> Of course it was a new document and I hadn't yet saved it (I know, I
> know). Gnome dumped a pretty big core file but from what I remember this
> won't contain any of the data I was working on just debugging
> information. A google search turned up hits for how to turn on the
> autosave feature which I have since turned on (I wish it was a default
> setting) but nothing on any recovery features.
>
> Also I'm not sure if this is relevant but the 'init' process has been
> using all cpu resources since I started my new gnome session.
>
> I was just wondering if anyone knew of a possible way (temp files or
> something??) to recover some of the data in the document.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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