At 09:14 04/02/2020 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:
I[t] sounds like you did not set how you want backup copies to be
made. If so, Alan is completely right.
Well, yes and no.
The hidden file in the document file's folder with a name that "would
likely start with the ~ character and end with #" (there's no
"likely" about it, and it starts with ".~", in fact) is a lock file
and does not contain the document's text or any part of it. It won't
help anyone if they find it.
Check this out:
1) Tools > Options > Openoffice[] > Load/Save > General. (Select
these one at a time to browse to where you can make changes in making backups.)
2) I check Autorecovery and reduce the number of minutes to 5. With
this, information about my document is saved every 5 minutes. These
are saved in the backup folder every 5 minutes. If there is a
problem like you had, I can open the latest one of these files and
continue from that point.
This may be good general advice (it is), but - as Alan Bonly says -
it is useful only after failures such as a program crash or power
outage, when the program terminates other than gracefully. This won't
help the questioner, who had a different problem, when she mistakenly
clicked Discard when closing her document. The only possibility here,
I think, is if an automatic back-up facility - such as Windows' File
History - happened to catch the recovery copy in the "backup" folder
during the editing session and before it was deleted.
Brian Barker
On 2/3/20 10:54 PM, Alan Bonly wrote:
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
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