Try a program such as Recuva. Pablo On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello all, >> my version of OpenOffice is the 3.1 and i have the following error: >> >> >> i had opened my file and i was working on it. I had a problem with the >> battery of my laptop and the power supply, so when i was working on my file, >> the PC switched off. After restarting my file was not in my work folder as >> ever: it disappeared. Every time i open OpenOffice it try to restore the >> file (even it is not in my folder as i told) but the restoring process can't >> restore the file. I've tried to search for the ODT file and restore it by >> using some free file recovery application but even there the file is not >> present, i can find only old link to that file and other stuff that have no >> significance. >> >> Please, can you yell how to have restored the file? It's fundamental for >> my work (1 year of work in it) :( >> >> Thank you very mutch, >> Valerio >> > > Sure hope you saved a backup somewhere! But are you saying that the > previously saved copy of the file is gone from your hard drive? OOo might > overwrite a file with the new version under the same name, but that should > never mean that the old copy is explicitly deleted. It sounds as if the > failure occurred while the file was being written, and messed up your file > system (that is, there was an operating system error). Maybe another file > recovery program would have better luck -- somebody here might suggest a > good one, or you can look on sourceforge.com. Otherwise, sorry to say I > think you're probably out of luck. In the future, you need to save > important files periodically to something other than your hard drive (given > time, any hard drive is almost certain to fail at some point). That applies > to any local e-mail folders, too, as I discovered to my cost! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Pablo Luis Gonzalez t (UK) 01482 589315 m 07504 482340 http://pabloluisgonzalez.comuf.com http://www.myspace.com/pabloluisgonzalez http://www.friendsofhullscreen.co.uk
