Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

Hi :)
Ok, so you have made a copy of the corrupted file.  The "User Profile" is here
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
well, that's the guide that describes where it is on the various
different systems.

I tend to try a few different approaches all at about the same time
when faced with this sort of thing.  We have all been there and lost
data at some point or other.  It's easy to be wiser with hindsight,
such as saving back-ups on different machines but before hindsight we
mnight not have thought about it!!

It might be worth trying to remember if the file is saved anywhere
else.  Has the file been worked on anywhere else?  Are there any other
machines that might have a fairly recent version, perhaps the newer
laptop got used sometime?  Did the file get emailed, or saved onto
usb-stick?  Cd/Dvd back-ups?  Do you have a network, might it be on
there?  Is there an older version of the same file in the same folder
or archived somewhere?

If your husband can manage to start again he will find that it is FAR
quicker to re-do.  He might even find that the entire month's work can
be done fairly easily in just a couple of days.  In the process of
writing it originally he might have done research or thought carefully
about different options and tried different things out, perhaps
read-up on how to do certain things and then maybe not even gone that
way in the end.  All of that is swept aside on the 2nd time making it
much easier and faster to re-do something.

Regards from
Tom :)


On 13 January 2014 17:00, melodyfire <cowens33743@gmail.com> wrote:
> My husband has been working on a spreadsheet for over a month when last night
> our laptop was unplugged. The battery is busted and the only way to keep the
> laptop on is to have it plugged in. When he booted the laptop back up he was
> prompted to recover the file and the recovery failed.He is them prompted to
> choose an ACSII Filter option. When he chooses the option he gets a window
> that says "Document file 'name%20name.ods' is locked for editing by Unknown
> User Open document read-only or open a copy of document for editing."
>
> Each option opens a word document with this for 3 pages:
>
> ice.Office.UI.WindowState:WindowStateType['private:resource/toolbar/drawbar']"><prop
> oor:name="SoftClose" oor:op="fuse"><value>false</value></prop></item><item
> oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.UI.ChartWindowState/UIElements/States/org.openoffice.Office.UI.WindowState:WindowStateType['private:resource/toolbar/drawbar']"><prop
> oor:name="Style" oor:op="fuse"><value>0</value></prop></item><item
>
> The file had been saved many times before, is there a way I can either save
> this file or open a past save? This is an ancient laptop (MacOS 10.4.11) so
> alot of downloads wont work for it. If I can email the file to an up to date
> laptop then I could save it. Can anyone help me? My husband is really upset
> about losing this file and is already battling depression and this does not
> need to be another thing on his list to be upset about.
>
> Thanks for everyone help!
>
>
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