Eli, One possible solution I haven't seen mentioned yet, but has rescued a couple of very important work docs for me, is to look for the document, and open it as a ZIP file. Use WinZIP, IZArc, etc. and you can at least pull the text content out and save it.
First and foremost: Your Milage May Vary! Depending on how badly damaged your file is, this may NOT work at all! My example, using WindowsXP: If the paper is name "Senior_Paper.odt", look for that file and RIGHT click on it. Choose "Open With ..." and pick WinZIP or whatever compression program you have. (I use IZArc - so the details may be a little different.) You should see a window resembling the "My Computer" window, with a "tree" on the left side and folders and documents on the right. Look on the Right side for "Content.xml". If you see this the odds are very good that most of your data has survived. Open it with notepad, it will look weird w/ all the XML formatting markups, etc., but don't worry about that. Save it as something you can remember, such as "Desperate_Rescue.xml" ;-), (remember to use ".xml", not ".txt" as the file extension if you use Windows.) Now you can then open that file with an XML aware program such as Amaya (available at W3C.org). Don't use OpenOffice.org. All I got was the same old marked up stuff. But in Amaya, my test XML file had a lot of white space at the top, and then the text that I'd typed in. About all the formatting it had left was the line returns. It's not pretty, but it IS cut/past-able back into an OpenOffice.org document ... but again, the formatting is now gone. It's not fun, but you now have your basic text back. I hope. I learned this poking around trying to rescue a heavily graphic oriented OpenOffice.org .odt file that turned out to have corruption in the "Meta" folder. It was much easier than trying to redo the document from scratch, and made me appreciate some of the robustness that seems built into the OASIS standard. I sure hope this helps. Once you get it rescued, then start saving and backing up your important stuff as suggested by others. Let us know if anything helped. -Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Re: I have a problem with Open Office 2.1- URGENT!!!!!!!!!!!! > i am using open office version 2.1. I am writing my senior paper and was finishing up editing the paper as the application shut down. Now this happens often enough but since 2.1 has an automatic save and recovery system i never loose more then a few senteces but when i reopened Open Office my senior paper was recoverd but the entire paper was lost all fifteen pages of it and i need to get this back tonight. I would appreciate a call or a contact number not this email help center. thanks Eli Eder. i can be reached at 2077295185 or 2078373577 thanks again > > > --------------------------------- > Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast > with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut.
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