All my documents have changed to 'CDYUUQG' files, and contain gibberish [closed]
Windows Defender found something bad on my pc and got rid of it.
After restarting my pc, all of my libreoffice documents had changed to "ODT.CDYUUQG" files, and are now either unopenable, or contain only a line or two of gibberish, like: "µ*›Ò¯¹�ÏiÖ[-ã�ù¿m¤D Þ¼]". I mean, that's now the whole of the document!
What on earth happened and how can I [easily!] fix it / restore my documents to their 'normal state' ? (Please explain step by step like you're talking to a four year old!)
This looks like a malfunction of your Windows Defender. Did you already search MS related forums for the problem? What size is the renamed document (as shown in your file manager)? Did you try to simply cut the added extension (including the dot) and subsequently open the file? What version of Windows are you running? (Version of LibO?)
If you add some relevant information it should be more likely you get help. Would you mind attaching one of the files?