Hi, thanks for that very prompt answer! Looking in my Temp folder, it looks like I have a lot of files there. Some of them are really old... The temp hasn't been cleaned. Because if the files were deleted, all of them would be, right?
What would the file be called? I can't find it under it's own name :( Once again, many thanks for this answer! Björn > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:14:03 -0800 > Subject: [users] Re: Lost recovery information? > > On 03/11/2010 02:51 AM, Björn Holm wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > My laptop crashed today, while my 103 pages long document was open. > > Foolishly I've kept the laptop running for days without giving it a > > proper shutdown. > > > > When I booted up again, OpenOffice wanted to recover my document, and > > I pressed yes. It opened a 102 pages long version of the file - and > > it seems to be from 3 days back (checked the date on the .bak file in > > the backup folder). > > > > This is all fairly reasonable in itself. However, my setting for > > saving autorecovery is on 5 minutes. My openoffice is hence set to > > save autorecovery information for my documents every five minutes. > > Why didn't this work in my case? (I've had the document open for a > > looong time, it should've saved at least something more recent than a > > version from the 7th?) Is there a catch to this setting? A bug > > associated with it? "Always save a backup file" is also ticked. > > > > Puzzling, isn't it? Needless to say, I lost a lot of important data > > :( > > > > I'll be very grateful if you help me in this matter. I'm on vista > > with openoffice 3.0 > > The problem will occur regardless of which OS (Windows or Linux etc). > The issue is that, while OOo is saving your work every 5 minutes, it's > saving it in a /tmp or /Tempdir folder/directory. When your machine > crashed & you rebooted, the data in the /Tempdir folder is > deleted/cleaned on the reboot. Note that OOo uses that folder in the > event that the program (OOo) crashes, so that is why you can recover. > But if the machine crashes and cleans the temp folder, all of the backup > is gone with it. > You _may_ be lucky and the folder didn't get cleaned due to the crash... > take a look there & see if any remnants of your document are still there. > > To prevent this in the future, make a Temp folder of your own & then > change the Temporary files path in OOo: > Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths|Temporary files|Edit to point to that > folder instead of /Temdir. That way if the machine crashes again, you > can check your 'temp' folder for recovery. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail i mobilen! http://new.windowslivemobile.msn.com/SE-SE/windows-live-hotmail/default.aspx
