> Entirely due to my own stupidity, I inadvertently deleted a completed > document just before backing up my hard drive (with the purpose of the > backup being to safely store said document), and set myself back about > 18 hours of work. It can be redone, but I'm trying to avoid having to > stay up all night tonight redoing work for tomorrow's deadline... and > I already have a headache from banging my head against the wall when I > realized what I did. :_( > > Is there any place that OpenOffice may have stored previous copies of > the document? I wasn't creating backup copies on save, but I do have > it set to save auto recovery info every 15 minutes. Is there some way > to restore the auto recovery info for a deleted document? I closed > OpenOffice, then deleted the document, then have not reopened > OpenOffice since (the drive was backed up in that state) -- are there > maybe temporary files somewhere that may have been left around? > > Thanks, > Jason
Do NOT use that drive if you can help it. Don't even use the computer if it's stored on the boot drive. That minimizes the chances of overwriting the deleted file, which does still exist; it's just not mapped to. The more you use the computer the more chance the file will be overwritten. Any chance the deleted file is sitting in your Recycle Bin? Where did you tell OOo to store backup files? It might be there, just one rev old. It's listed in the options settings under Paths. Does your recycle bin have an Unerase Wizard? I've forgotten whether that's part of the Recycle Bin or a 3rd party that put it there on mine. There ARE unerase utilities around to try, but realize, *the more you use your computer in the meantime, the more likely the erased file,* which still exists on the drive, will be overwritten, especially if the disk is much more than 50% full. Try to use a different computer to download one. HTH --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
