Kitty, Usually when you are asked to choose a filter on opening any OpenOffice document, it means that the document you are opening is damaged, possibly seriously with all data lost.
It seems that the save you performed after recovery and use failed. Determining whether there is a way to recover the data will depend on how your database is configured. I suggest you go to the Community Forum, <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/> in the Base section under Applications and see how to work out more details. In the future, it may be useful to come up with a versioning scheme for backing up new updates under different filenames (with numbers or dates in the names). After an autorecovery, save that result to a different filename immediately. On re-opening the auto-recovered one, there can then be more confidence that it is all in good shape and what of your last changes have been preserved before making further changes. Also, you can save any reports produced by Base as separate files as a precaution if you need to recover data. I expect that experienced Base users will have more to offer on the Community Forum. I wish you good fortune in getting your database operational again. - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin's Mowing [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 13:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Database Crashed - filter selection? > > Hello, > > I use Open Office 4 as my database program for our company. It recently > crashed, not sure why, upon opening it again it gave me the option to > recover the database, which I did, and then used it. Next time I try to > open it, it asked for a filter selection, but none will allow the > database to open. What can I do? > > Kitty Martin > Martin's Mowing > 615.964.7282 > martinsmow.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
