I had been working on changes to a already saved file when my battery ran out and turned off my laptop. When I started it again, windows did an update. When I tried to open the document again, it showed up minus all of the changes/additions I made before it shut down. I did not see anything in the recycle bin or any backed up files in the back up folder in the path section. It only happened a few hours ago. Is there a way I can somehow recover that modified document?
Unless you turned on automatic recovery information, there is no hope. I guess this was not enabled because you’d have has a question about recovery of the document open when power outage occurred.
When working in long session, it is a good policy to backup frequently. You can use File>Save a Copy so that you can sequentially number your backups without changing the name of the working document.
I did have it set to automatically backup all files, but apparently when Windows updated my computer upon restart, that setting was changed. I normally do periodically save my work, but apparently not this time. I know I’m screwed. Thanks anyway.
As Windows shut down so quickly, LibreOffice might not have had a chance to clean up.
Look in C:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\Temp and see if there are any folders beginning with lu with the same date as PC went down. If there is one, look inside the folder and copy the largest file beginning with lu to another location. At that location, change the extension to .ods .odt and try opening it.
Really .ods? The question is tagged writer. Extension should then be .odt.
(But in fact it does not matter as LO analyses the file contents before routing to the ad-hoc component. It only matters for the OS desktop.)
Whoops! Good catch @ajlittoz , I did mean .odt.
On fact the easiest way is not to change the extension but to just open the file from within LibreOffice but I wanted to emphasize opening the copied file.
@Loratika, the attached file will help speed it up (I already uploaded the previous version).
Open the file and click on the “Find Deleted Files” button. A list of files that can be recovered will be generated, indicating the size and date of modification (but there will be no real name). Double click on the file name to open the file.
FindDeletedFiles.ods (12.5 KB)
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Thanks for attempting to help.
I downloaded the file and opened it. There is a warning that Macros are disabled. I can’t find how to enable them. I entered Options>Macros and changed the security to “Ask me” but that made no difference. I can’t find any other place where Macros can be managed and what little online Help I could find is useless.
UPDATE. Weird PC. I just opened the downloaded spreadsheet for a second time and THIS TIME, before it opened, I was given a window that asked me if I wanted to enable macros. No idea why this didn’t happen the first time.
Obviously I did enable macros.
I’ve run the macro and there are THREE .temp files that have been located. I have no idea what they are, how to use any of them or which to use.
I asked more about this reply but am now returning to the original offer of help, the file to download “FindDeletedFiles.ods”.
I downloaded the file. I ran it and it found various temp files. I used another app to locate those temp files. Although named as .tmp, they are .ocd [LibreOffice Calc] files. I opened each with Calc and one DID contain the missing comments, i.e. they were all older versions of the Calc document I was editing and one had not yet lost the missing data. So I was able to recover from the appropriate .tmp file.
A massive thank you. It would have taken a lot of work to try and work out which comments were lost and what they said. An EXCELLENT SOLUTION.
Sorry for delay in posting but I had lots of things happen [including the unexpected death of a close friend].
pc cannot locate the path you gave - checked pc user name first to check. Also, the download just takes to libreoffice calc app?
Please see edited post [above] where I managed to enable macros.
Double click on each of them and see if they are of interest to you.
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Please see above