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| Lost Document Search | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 15 2013, 09:12 AM (99 Views) | |
| dogleg | Nov 15 2013, 09:12 AM Post #1 |
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I lost a document I was working on. It isn't in the recycle bin as far as I can tell. It still shows up on the document list but nothing comes out in spite of it showing 9KB of content. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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| campy | Nov 15 2013, 11:14 AM Post #2 |
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What are the last three letters of the file name? What kind of file is the document saved in? Excel? Microsoft Word? or some other type of file? |
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| dogleg | Nov 15 2013, 11:24 AM Post #3 |
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Campy: The document was created with 'open office ' and the last three letters of the file name are 'oom'. |
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| campy | Nov 15 2013, 11:37 AM Post #4 |
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I don't have Open Office on my computer so I can't help you out. Would this link help. It has something to do with memory. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=99585 Edited by campy, Nov 15 2013, 11:39 AM.
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| dogleg | Nov 15 2013, 02:39 PM Post #5 |
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No luck. I guess I am beat. I notice there is software you can download to find lost documents but don't know how good it would be. My document was saved and changed many times over a week or so and disappeared when I was adding a cover page. Very strange . I thought it would be in the desktop somewhere. |
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| Delphi51 | Nov 15 2013, 03:16 PM Post #6 |
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If you know all or part of the file name, try searching your C drive for it. In XP you right click on the C drive in My Computer and choose "search". Type in the file name and press Enter. No doubt Win 7 has an improved method. Windows can also search for text within files. http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Windows-7-Search-File-Contents The Windows recent documents list shows the shortcuts in the recent documents folder in your profile folder. It can be fooled by deleting or moving a file so the shortcut no longer points to it. Open Office has a similar list of recently opened documents. It will not know about moves or deletes made outside OO. Edited by Delphi51, Nov 15 2013, 03:21 PM.
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| campy | Nov 15 2013, 03:41 PM Post #7 |
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If it's really important would a restore work? I have never done it so I have no idea. |
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