Thanks for that and the photos album I always used is now empty and as I
last looked at the album 5 days ago and the only thing I have done since was
update Libreoffice and I thought it was the only thing that may have been the problem.
Since then I’ve done some searching and was coming back to this to post the results.
I now have a new pictures folder and can’t get those pictures to the photo’s album (so obviously a
Microsoft "glitch"that appeared out of nowhere and I now have to use a different way of accessing the
photos).
The files I have also been able to access elsewhere (which is a bit strange as they were produced via
Libreoffice but they can’t be accessed there).
So there is a workaround to access that “stuff” (just not in Libreoffice itself).
So you have my apology for “jumping the gun” and I should’ve searched further first (maybe this may help
someone else that it has happened to).