Bonnie Yvonne Moore RN wrote:
I worked on a paper for several hours that was work-related. Several conference calls had to be made, and I was interrupted several times as well. To gather all of the information was time consuming, to say the least, then all of a sudden my computer was froze and I wasn't able to even save my work. The doc was several pages and full of important dates/facts. I frequently save work on line, but don't usually need to save work on my writing programs in general. The only option was to cancel or "end now". Cancelling only keeps you in that "frozen" state indefinitely, and "end now" was the only option I had, unless I exited from the computer/shut down, etc. Is there anyway to prevent having to lose all the data in the future other than continuously "saving" every few minutes? Additionally, is there any way to possibly recover my documents that have been lost due to this problem in the past? I figure, if the detectives/computer experts can retrieve any data ever completed, and any searches on-line, etc. etc. for court evidence, and everything remains stored forever on the computer, then there has to be a way for the user to recover it as well. Am I wrong? I've lost so many documents/papers over the past 10 years for various reasons, and so much time is wasted. As soon as you drop your guard and don't save every paragraph, that's when it happens. I'll appreciate any help regarding this question I can get! Thank You! B. Moore email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice can frequently recover an improperly closed file, when you start it again, but you can't always depend on it. You can also configure OpenOffice to automatically save periodically, so that you'd lose at most a few minutes work. Frequent saves and back up copies are important with computers, particularly if you're running Windows.
If your document is important, it is certainly work protecting with frequent saves an back ups.
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