Rory and John; I am forwarding this reply from Rory to John in hopes that it will get through as Rory was having trouble reaching John's e-mail address.
Regards Keith Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:15:31 -0800 > John Suter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I need help in recovering a text file, a book, I have been writing and >> saving every 15 minutes or so. >> >> My laptop running Windows 10 version 1511, IE 11.20.10586.0 and using Apache >> Open Office 4.1.2 had a abrupt browser blank-out. Before restarting my >> system to clear the problem, I saved the Open Office file. After restarting >> my system, Open Office didn’t have any files I have been working on in the >> platform que. I went to “documents” and opened the file I was wanting to >> return to and it said it was restricted and could only be seen in a >> read-only mode. However, when I said I wanted to see a copy, all that was >> displayed were screens of “X”s. Can you advise me how to recover? >> >> Thanks, John > > You should look in the backup and temporary directories pointed to by /Tools > /Options /OpenOffice : Paths. Rename any files in those to the file type you > were using and see if they contain your data. > > No matter what format you were working to, run an undelete utlity such as > Recuva or PhotoRec and see if it will find some deleted temporary file > holding some or all of your data. I'd start with Recuva or PhotoRec (you only > need one of these, and the sooner the better, as c0ontinued use of the > computer might overwrite any deleted image of your file). >
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