I was using an OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet to keep track of my work hours. I had a loss of power. I think the document was open when the power loss occurred. Save Recovery Information was enabled but Automatic Backups were not. I rebooted the computer. Windows was showing a popup error message on the task bar stating that there were corrupted files in the C:\System Restore\[long number code].... folder. Before running chkdsk to fix the errors I opened my spreadsheet to see if it was ok. I did not see any prompts to do a recovery of the document. Everything looked good. I think I added that days hours to it, saved it on the hard drive (should have tried saving it someplace other than the hard drive) and closed the file. I rebooted the computer and ran chkdsk at startup to correct the file system errors. About 10 files were found to have errors but none had an ods extension. After the weekend I went back to my spreadsheet file and OpenOffice did not recognize the file. When I try to open the file OO.org asks what character set to use. If I accept the default suggestions and click Ok I only get several lines of nonsense text spread out over 16 pages. I clicked Start, Run, cmd, edit "file name.ods" and I find this:
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