Hi :) Marianne is completely correct, of course. I am rarely confident about my answers either but this one i recognise from similar previous questions and i've experimented with this a bit myself too. Marianne is completely correct afaik.
There is a back-up folder within the User Profile, and is sometimes worth looking in. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile You might have automatic back-ups enabled, it's always possible. Regards from Tom :) On 7 Feb 2016 21:38, "marianne-x" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/02/2016 01:51 PM, Pat Brown wrote: > >> I was sending a cal document to be printed but the print never went >> through >> and LO hung. I had to close LO down. When I restarted LO I got the message >> that there was a file that needed to be recovered. I instructed to start >> recovery but it went into working mode and never came out. It is not a big >> file and should not have taken more than a couple of minutes to recover. I >> shut down and tried again a couple of times but without success. On >> searching for that particular file I found two references. The file is >> called "Invoices.ods". I also found "Invoices.ods.lnk" and >> ".~lock.Invoices.ods#". If I delete these last two will that release the >> file for recovery or will I be causing trouble by doing so? Are there any >> other options I can try? And if anyone says "go to backups" I will choke. >> I had just made a large number of changes to the file and had not had an >> opportunity to do a backup. Hope someone has a solution. Paddy >> >> It is surprizing that you have not had any response(s) yet. > > Treat anything I suggest with caution, as I am no expert. > > It looks as if you have three "Invoices" references, not two. > > You say that you haven't made a recent backup, but have you SAVED your > file in the form in which you hope it to be? If not, you may be lost. > > The "~lock" file is there to indicate that the file is ostensibly in use > by some application. These "lock" files often get left behind when they > should have been automatically closed. > > If by "shutting down" you mean that you have rebooted, as seems probable, > then you can blithely erase that "lock" file, and that's the first thing I > would try. > > If you haven't rebooted, you can probably still erase it without adverse > consequences, but that situation might call for a little more thought, such > as assuring that some instance of calc is not running in some hidden > fashion. > > Your "invoices.ods" file is the one that holds your spreadsheet. It > wouldn't be a bad idea to copy it to one or more safe places, just in case > something goes wrong with your recovery experiments. > > The ".lnk" file is probably a "shortcut" to allow loading the calc > programme, and that particular spreadsheet file, all with one click. It > should have no negative effects, and I would leave it be. > > Let us hope that someone with more assured authority weighs in. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] 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
