[CC:d to user] Marti Hanna wrote: > Hello Tech Support People, > > What a nightmare! > For hours this morning, I was using OpenOffice.org-Writer working on > a document I am preparing in preparation for a job interview. > I clicked on Save As and gave the document a title. > I kept typing, and after several pages (I think I kept Saving) I > wanted to exit out. Unfortunately at some point I went to Save As > again, and when it said "Do You Want to Replace This File?" I clicked > on Yes instead of no. > > Now all I have is the final page of what I have spent all morning > typing. I can't find my original document. Its title is listed when > I go to Recent Documents, twice. When I try to open the first title, > I get a box with Read-Error, Error reading file so I cannot open it. > When I open the second document with the same title, all I get is the > last page of what I was working on.
I'm unclear as to exactly what you did. Did you delete all but the last page of the document and overwrite a more complete file? When you say "read-error", just what do you mean? Is that an operating system error saying it has trouble reading from the disk? Or OOo saying it can find the file? What is the exact message? > Please don't tell me my first several hours of typing are just gone > and not retrievable. Thanks so much. Well, I don't know. Suggestion that may or may not work. Open OOo Writer again. Do NOT try to open any of the files you have been working on. Go to Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths and look for the "Backups" entry. Use your file browser in your operating system (I think you are using Windows Vista?) to navigate to that directory and see if there are backup files there. Put renamed copies of them back in your main working area (give them a totally new name and rename them from being .bak) and then open them with OOo. Maybe an older fuller version is there. -- Bob Long P.S. You have written to a mailing list where help is provided by volunteers. To ensure you see all replies, it is recommended that you subscribe to the mailing list. Please reply only to the mailing list at [email protected] and not to me personally. FAQ, userguide, etc: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ > Marti Hanna > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
