How can I recover documents from Recent Files? When I try to open one I get an error message saying that the file does not exist.

[A.Walrus]

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[mikekaganski]

See also write file will not open

[robleyd]

Recover recent file

Closed out of LO to restart computer for updates, when I went back into LO, clicked to open a recent document file, & got a message that the file does not exist. If it doesn’t exist, how can it be in my recent files list? How can this be? Where might it be hiding? Is there a way to recover it? Thx

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[bobpegram]

When only LO is open, but no documents are open, icons of previously opened documents are shown. Often when clicking on those icons I would have the same problem. However, clicking on the open file menu and navigating to the location of the actual document instead solved the problem Apparently the links from the icons shown in LO itself are getting unlinked (disconnected) from the actual document locations. When that happens LO can’t find the document. You have to find it for LO.