Updating to verson 25.2.2.2 Community has made me loose significant chunks of tables in Writer

[Ilyas]

Hi All,

I recently (8-Apr-2025) upgraded LibreOffice to version 25.2.2.2 from the previous version (I do not recall the exact version number) I had installed previously.

However, when I opened the Writer documents, a significant portion of a OLE Object (Spreadsheet) is now lost.

It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I am still not positively sure what happened. The tables that I had inserted via OLE Object (spreadsheet) from file are no longer there.

Can someone please help me retrieve the original document?

Thank you.

P.S. Please do let me know what additional information you need to diagnose the situation at hand. Thanks

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Version: 10.0.22631 Build 22631
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz, 2803 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

LO-Writer:
Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

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@Ilyas

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[Ilyas]

I’m unable to view an editable screen after pressing the pencil so I am posting as a comment.

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Version: 10.0.22631 Build 22631
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz, 2803 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

LO-Writer:
Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

[sokol92]

See this message.

[EarnestAl]

If you open Navigator, are the OLE objects listed? If you double click on an OLE object, it will be selected, scrolled into view and be highlighted as long as the mouse hovers over the entry in Navigator.

Is View > Images and Charts ticked? The setting toggles visibility of OLE objects too.

[Kyodake]

If you have automatic version recovery enabled.

File Explorer —>file.odt (corrupted) —> right-click —> Properties.

If a tab appears that says Previous Versions, you can restore or copy a previous version where the OLE object was still valid.

LibreOffice may have made an automatic backup.

In LibreOffice —> Menu —> Tools —> Options —> Left menu —> LibreOffice —> Paths.

Find the Backup Folder in the list.

Open that folder manually in File Explorer.

There you may find a .bak file related to your document:

Copy it to another location, rename it, and change the extension from .bak to .odt. The option to view extensions in Explorer must be enabled.

Open it to see if the contents were recovered.

Extract the contents of the file.odt directly

If there are no copies or previous versions,

Copy the file.odt to another directory, change the extension from .odt to .zip. The option to view extensions in the browser must be enabled. Open the .zip file, like any compressed file.

Look for the Object 1, Object 2, ObjectReplacements, or similar directory. There may be .bin, .xml, or even .ods files.

Copy them out of the directory, change the extension to .ods, and try opening them with LibreOffice Calc. Some may have the entire table saved there.

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