No files found under recent documents

[Chris Mussett <ch...@btinternet.com.INVALID>]

Hi I have been using Openoffice 4.1.1 for a few years now and today after
saving a document created, the screen went blank which I thought was power
loss so I plugged in and went to recent documents but  it says no documents
found so everything  has disappeared. I'm not terribly clever with some
computer requirements so have tried updating but that hasn't worked either.
I have got into something that suggests I uninstall and then re install a
later version but am a little scared as does this mean I will not find
existing documents on there either?

 

HELP!!!

Thanks

Chris

Re: No files found under recent documents

[F Campos Costero <fj...@gmail.com>]

Your documents are still wherever you saved them. What has been lost is the
list of the names of recent documents kept by OpenOffice. If you know the
folder where your files were saved, you can use the menu File -> Open to
navigate there and open them. If you do not know where the files are saved,
you can try File -> Open and see if it happens to take you to the correct
location. If not, you will have to search for the files on your computer.
How to do that depends on what operating system you have, Windows or Mac or
something else.

regards,
Francis

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 5:56 AM Chris Mussett
<ch...@btinternet.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi I have been using Openoffice 4.1.1 for a few years now and today after
> saving a document created, the screen went blank which I thought was power
> loss so I plugged in and went to recent documents but  it says no documents
> found so everything  has disappeared. I'm not terribly clever with some
> computer requirements so have tried updating but that hasn't worked either.
> I have got into something that suggests I uninstall and then re install a
> later version but am a little scared as does this mean I will not find
> existing documents on there either?
>
>
>
> HELP!!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>