Hello Narissa, I think you are out of luck. If OpenOffice or the computer had crashed or if you forced the program to close without saving the document you would be able to find the document per the instructions at the link below. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/recover-unsaved-work-openoffice-29581.html
That crash recovery version of the document the instructions direct how to find disappeared whenever the program was closed by clicking the Discard button in every test I tried. One other possibility is look in the directory the file is saved in. Make sure your file browser is set to show hidden files. It is possible a version of the file might still be there. The name would likely start with the ~ character and end with #. The file has a greater chance of being there if it was saved on a network drive instead of the pc's hard drive. Good luck. At the risk of rubbing salt in a wound, and not at all intending to, regardless what happens with this file I suggest the following to people as a way to protect against just this sort of thing. "Save early, save often". The keyboard combination Ctrl+S allows saving the file just as rapidly as typing a capital letter. Get into the Ctrl+S habit at any time you pause your editing and there's a great chance of not loosing any work. On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:36 AM Narissa Hinojosa <nari...@electrictancc.com> wrote: > Hello! I am desperate for help!! > > I accidentally clicked “don’t save” when editing a document! I have looked > everywhere and I can’t find out how to get it back! I went through the > steps online of the c:\users\ that brings up the backup file and it’s not > in there! > > Thank you so much for your time! > > > Narissa Hinojosa > General Manager > phone: 361-883-8712 > email: nari...@electrictancc.com > > The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient > specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of > this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. > If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and > follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not > occur in the future -- Alan Boba CISSP, CCENT, ITIL v3 Foundations 2011
