Set up save every 5 min. I believed there would be a backup copy, or a folder with my recovery stuff. Nothing. Besides losing a couple days work, I’m disillusioned and sad. Any chance the back up is still somewhere?
See where they are in Menu>Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Paths.
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Also this Help article, Saving Documents Automatically
and Preventing data disaster - The Document Foundation Wiki
Note: If you haven’t saved the document at all (File > Save), then a backup won’t be saved.
Note 2: If LibreOffice crashed, say by shutting down Windows without shutting down LibreOffice first there is a possibility a file in the Temporary Files (path in Menu>Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Paths). There could be a folder beginning lu and with an extension of .tmp of roughly the date of your file. Copy the largest file beginning lu to another folder, open LibreOffice and then open the file from the LibreOffice dialogue.
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thank you both!
I found, to my surprise, that some of the work I did was not lost and is in the copy I am now using in Ubuntu. I’m not sure why all of it wasn’t saved, but Some is great!