Kenn Goutal wrote:
At a certain point in time, I had three spreadsheet files open.
Call them A.ods, B.ods, and C.ods, or just A, B, and C.
They were all doing fine,
and occasionally I would change something in one or the other of them.
Then, looking for a spreadsheet I knew I had *somewhere* with certain
kinds of information in it, I opened up Z.ods, thinking that might be it.
It wasn't.
It reported that various .gif (or some kind of image) files were missing,
but eventually came up, but then it froze up.
When I tried to close it with the [X] in the window, it did nothing.
Furthermore, when I tried to close any of the *other spreadsheets,
I couldn't close them either.
When I checked the Task Manager, OO.o was "Not responding". (Big Duh!)
When I told the Task Manager to kill off that application,
it reported that it couldn't because that application was "not responding".
(Stupid M$-Windows!!!!! Don't ask permission from the application!!!!!
Just remove it from the run queue!!!!! Oops. Sorry.)
Eventually it did manage to kill off the OO.o application,
but it left *all four* spreadsheet files -- A, B, C, *and* Z --
needing to be recovered.
As I say, I eventually did click Cancel, and it proceeded to open whatever
spreadsheet it was that I wanted (A, or B, or maybe G or something),
but I have no idea how much, if any, data in A, B, or C was lost
that was never recovered.
If A, B, and C seem OK now, they probably are. If there is any
information missing from a file after a restore, it is normally only the
information most recently entered but not yet saved or not yet stored
for autorecovery.
You can also check Tools -> Options... -> Load/Save -> General and see
if "Always create backup copy is checked". If it is, then you should
find your most recent backup copies in whatever Backups file path is
listed in Tools -> Options... -> OpenOffice.org -> Paths. You can copy
these to another folder, rename them, and then check them against your
current copies.
(Note, this is usually an invisible folder in Windows, so you may have
to use Tools -> Folder Options ... in a MS Windows folder option to make
it visible if you have not already set invisible folders as visible.)
If "Always create backup copy is checked" is not checked, I advise
checking it now for future needs.
The backups directory also contains BAK files which you can often rename
to to .odt or .ods or so forth and they will then show at least part of
the document in proper format. (These files are created as part of
AutoRecovery information concerning and usually don't contain the entire
text of a document, unless you have changed everything.) Make sure that
the "Save AutoRecovery information every [__] minutes" is checked with a
reasonable amount, say 15 minutes, in the minutes box.)
Jallan
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