Hi.
I was working on an assignment. I copied something into my document and the beach ball came up. Libre Office unexpectedly quit and now my saved version of the document is only 1 page long. It was 8 pages. I didn’t have always save a backup selected. is there anything i can do?
Cheers and thanks in advance
Rich
You can try to see if LibO saved a backup but this depends on your settings.
Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Paths > look for the path for Backups > open this folder and see if there is a back up.
In case of a Mac: LibreOffice > Preferences > Paths >…
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Allow me an experience based comment:
Better than attempting to recover lost data is prepare against the loss of data. To avoid a loss of a file these are 3 recommendations:
1 - Check the following LibO options: Tools > options > Load/Save > General
---- Save Autorecovery every x mins (the shorter the value the small a possible loss; I use 3 min)
---- Automatically save document too ( I don’t use this, because I regard the autorecovery function as excellent.)
---- Always create a backup copy (download and read the free of charge LibO guide to understand how this works)
2 - When I work more than a day on a file, I create additional daily back ups. I use the format “filename_yymmdd.ext” and I keep at least 1 previous version.
In case the file is extremely important and I work long hours non-stop, I add the actual time behind the date.
3 - Backup the HDD of your computer to an external HDD. External HDD in the range of 2-4 TB cost mostly less than 100 EUR. (I do this almost daily and even backup external HDD onto another one.
When it comes to this topic this expression comes to my mind: “Fail to prepare is prepare to fail!”