I have been working on a document for the entire week.
Libreoffice is open during the entire process, and the PC is kept on at all times. I’m writing and saving from time to time, every day.
Yesterday the PC was frozen (that is a problem I’m having with the GPU sleep state, from time to time), so I had to power it off and on.
When I opened the document at Writer, it asked me if I wanted to recover. I said Yes, and all my changes were gone. The document went back to something like 2% of my editing, it only had a couple of initial lines.
Have searched inside the recycle bin, but couldn’t find anything related to this document.
This is one week’s worth of work, I don’t even know how I’m feeling right now.
I’m pretty sure my hard drive is fine.
System is a Linux Mint 21.1.
Writer is 7.3.7.2.
It keeps asking for “recovery” every time I open the document, all the same initial state.
LibreOffice can only restore what has already been saved.
You may have defined a backup path under Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Paths.
Check whether there is a backup there and what status it has.
Preventing data disaster
Thanks for the suggestion.
That points to my home dir /.config/libreoffice/4/user/backup and is empty.