I love this reply. I am obsessive about backups after suffering lost data and files due to a hard drive failure back in the day when they were not as reliable as I feel they are now.
I have one backup for even dates, one for odd dates and a third one for a weekend backup. Of course I have never had a catasteophic failure since I began this backup routine, but I sleep well at night. On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 4:48 PM David Robley <robley.dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 20/10/18 07:02, cecilygsl...@juno.com wrote: > > Dear Open Office Support, Hi-I am a user of Open Office and am having > several related problems. I had just saved a document that I was working > on when my computer lost power. This has happened before and I never had a > problem, but this time I did. I connected the power again and tried to > pull up my document. Instead of giving me a "your documents have been > recovered" message, I was told I needed to register my Open Office with a > username. I filled out the form, then a box pulled up with "ASCH filter > options," something else that never happened before. I hit "OK," then I > got told my document was locked for editing. I hit "Open a Read-Only > Copy," and instead of my document, I got six pages of pound signs when the > original document was only 2 pages long. Is there anything I can do to get > my document back? > Your document is damaged beyond repair; your only hope is to try and > recover any temporary files Writer may have created - see > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=84056 for > more information. > > And can you tell me why my Open Office is doing all these things it > never did before? Thank you for your help,Cecily Lowe > Thus far you have been lucky when your computer lost power - this time > you weren't. May I suggest you consider some sort of strategy for > keeping multiple backups of your documents. > >
