Please help me.
I was working ona document for the past week. Every ten minutes I noticed it would save, so I exited out. It asked me if I wanted to save and I clicked no because I thought it had just saved a minute ago. However I don’t tried to open the document, and this is a version from like three days ago.
I’ve been trying to get the new version but can’t find it so I looked online and I figured maybe the thing that was being saved was the Autorecovery version? I went on tools, libre office, general and saw that it was saving an autorecovery version every ten minutes.
My question- how do I get the Autorecovery version?
I tried everything. I went to tools, options, libre office, paths and backups. I even went to temp files but I can’t find the recent version.
please tell me how to find the recently saved version.
The auto recovery is a temp file. The temp file is deleted when LibreOffice closes normally. If LibreOffice crashes then the temp file is not deleted and can be used to recover the contents from the time of the last auto save.
I see. Is there any way to get that temp file back after it deleted itself? Maybe some kind of recovery program? Or could a computer expert get it back? Or is it permanently gone? Also thank you for your quick response.
Maybe. The sooner the better as every write can overwrite data marked for deletion. Much easier to recover from spinning dusk than SSD though.
I have always lived by the mantra Save early, save often.
Also see Preventing data disaster - The Document Foundation Wiki
Thank you.
I will send it to an it expert and see if they can recover it.
If I were working on a document for a week I would have several partial copies. Click File > Save a copy and save as filenameYYYYMMDD.odt.
There is an extension to do a similar thing, https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/42030