On 03/24/2008 09:08 PM, Aditya Tandel wrote: > Hi > > > > My roommate did not save his work(several hours of it) and then the computer > crashed. When he restarted it, the file went back to how it was before he > did all the work. Is there any way the data can be recovered? >
Actually no. The program did as expected & reopened the file following the crash from the starting point. The problem is related to #1 below. Here is a way to prevent that from occuring in the future: 1. Change your autorecovery temp path to something other than your /tmp directory. The contents of your /tmp directory typically will be deleted on reboot, and relevant tmp files related to a program will be deleted when you close that program. The crash closed the program so any autorecovery files the program had stored in your /tmp folder would have been deleted when the program closed - including your existing edits. The same thing happens when the system crashes and is rebooted - the tmp files get deleted on restart. That is an OS 'feature' and is the same on linux as well. So, having the program save the autorecovery tmp files in a nonvolatile directory/folder will prevent that from happening in the future. Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths|Temporary files| click on 'Edit' and change that to something else. I generally create a OOotmp directory/folder in my documents folder so it's easy to find should something crash. 2. Set to Autobackup & modify AutoRecovery time. Tools|Options|Load/Save|General click 'Always create a backup copy' and set the AutoRecovery to 5 minutes. 'Always create a backup copy' will save the previous version as a backup copy whenever you save a document. You can also define the path for where the backup (.BAK) files are stored using Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths|Backups. 3. Always save frequently if you are working on a long document; particularly if you have a system that is prone to crashes or power failtures etc. -- You have been cc'd on this post as you have posted to an open OOo mailing list. Please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details and how to subscribe or view the archives so that you may see responses from other OOo users. Please *only* reply to [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
