Hi :) Surely just go back to the last back-up or find a copy in emails or on a usb-stick. Any chance of it being in a temp folder or auto-backup or something?
Btw do all the different machines you use run the same version of MS Office as each other? Regards from Tom :) On 15 July 2014 21:41, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I encountered a most infuriating problem today when working with LO on > OSX - file corruption when writing to an external disk drive. > > As I'm often having to work with different machines, and different OSes, > I have an external FAT formatted LaCie hard drive to store my files on. > This works great on Linux, Windows and OSX. > > Until LO 4252, I had never encountered any file corruption issues, > absent power cuts and NFS shares ;-) and I have been using StarOffice, > then OpenOffice and now LO since StarOffice first became available for > OSes other than Windows - that just goes to show how long my teeth are > with regard to this product. > > However, in the space of a fortnight, LO 4252 has successfully trashed > two Writer documents that I was working on, irreparably, once about a > fortnight ago, and once today. The first time it happened, I thought it > was a one-off, and I actually hadn't been working on the file for long > when it happened. > > Today, I lost two hours work, and working to a very tight deadline > thanks to a client's late order. Needless to say, I was/am not impressed. > > The file can not be opened in any of the following : > > OOo 3.2.1 > OOo 4.0.0 > LO 3.6.7 > LO 4.1.3 > LO 4.2.5 > > The file can not be unzipped or repaired with zip, and yet it is stated > as weighing in at 73 kb (of binary rubbish). > > I love LO, and the whole open source idea, but the product needs a > serious quality rethink if things like this can happen. I have had no > such issues on Linux, which just goes to show that the developers, as a > whole, give little heed to the changes they make in the code and the > effect it can have on other OSes (Windows, Mac) - as they would say, > "how are we supposed to know whether change x or y will have an impact > on a closed source OS ?" - more attention is given to the Windows arena > because that is where the perceived markets are for the taking. This > leaves the little people like Joe Bloggs / Jane Doe, etc, here, to deal > with the issues on OSX, of which there are many, and too few developers > willing or interested to care about fixing them. > > > Had I stuck to MS Word (yes, I have Office 2011 for Mac), this would not > have happened, of that I am certain. Had I stuck to 4.1.x, this would > not have happened either, but no that is now obsolete...instead we have > a 4.2.5.x as "stable" with deficiencies like the one I encountered, and > as a businessman, I begin to seriously start questioning the > benefit/risk assessment of the whole LO thing. > > This is just a word of warning to others, as they say "your mileage may > vary". > > Alex > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
