encoded file

[Alane <al...@netzero.com>]

I have spent the last month adding about 150 pages of text to an existing file. When I shut the computer down and opened the file back up it is nothing but ################ signs, page after page. I have used your program for several years and had this happen to some files when I changed computers, but not the entire file, and that is what I have been trying to do to recover these files from a hard copy. I am not happy to have lost 150 pages of typing. Is there any way to recover this file to an odt file. I did not password protect the file, it just encoded it on its own. Other files I have opened are just fine. It seems to be just this one file.
Alane

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Re: encoded file

[Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 14:21:54 -0600
Alane <al...@netzero.com> wrote:

> I have spent the last month adding about 150 pages of text to an existing file. When I shut the computer down and opened the file back up it is nothing but ################ signs, page after page. I have used your program for several years and had this happen to some files when I changed computers, but not the entire file, and that is what I have been trying to do to recover these files from a hard copy. I am not happy to have lost 150 pages of typing. Is there any way to recover this file to an odt file. I did not password protect the file, it just encoded it on its own. Other files I have opened are just fine. It seems to be just this one file.
> Alane

Your file is damaged beyond repair and will contain no usable information.   This damage may be because of over-hasty power off of the computer before the internal buffers in the hard drive had written to disk.  

You may be able to recover a previous version of the file - see the Tutorial at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=85038 for detailed instructions on how to

a) use [b][i]Previous Versions[/i][/b] (W7 and later) to recover previous versions of the file ;

b) recover your file as it was when you last opened or saved it, or as it was when it was last saved with AutoRecovery;

c) find previous versions of the file in the folder it is located in, but which have since been deleted;

d) un-delete the temporary files AOO wrote while you were editing the file, and then deleted.  This will recover your file as it was when you last opened or you last saved it.

Experience shows that you should not waste any time with your existing file - it will have no usable content.  Concentrate on the recovery methods outlined in the tutorial.

You could download PhotoRec and allow it undelete any temporary files.  You may or may not recover some, all or nothing of your file.

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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>

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