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possible that data in Libre Office files is lost?

Asked by vfmla

Hello all,

it seems to me that some of my works saved in libre office spreadsheets is lost. I am not totally sure that this is the case, except in one file, where I am pretty certain that I made some recent additions to the file and I don't see these. in other files, there are also some lines that seem to be missing.
I am working on multiple spreadsheets and it is not easy to tell for sure.

from your experiences, is it possible? did this already happen to you?
if this is a known problem, is there a way to revert to the earlier state of a file? (I tried versions option, but this seems to help only for the future)

thank you so much for your assistance!
Best greets,

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What sort of file is it and we can search the OS. If you have the name it will bne useful :)

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vfmla (bernuce) said : 		#2

Dear Andrew,

thank you very much for your help.

after my question above, I found luckily recent versions of my files still on my computer, and by comparing files saw that almost all latest updates were not saved (new cells in a sheet or a new sheet). I could paste in the missing parts from the earlier versions, and fix the problem.

However I feel the need to know why this happened, to avoid any possibly irrecoverable data loss next time.
I might have thought I forgot to save updates while I am working on many spreadsheets on a constant basis, however I attend to saving them every time after a change, which I'm pretty sure I did last time, too.
and having had this happen to most or all updated files makes me think some error had occured while saving. yet I do not know whether this originated from libre office, the OS..(or the hard drive?)

hence I asked if there are such known bugs/failures from before.

else the only solution seems to me now, since I do not want to revert to any windows software, to be more wary while backing up files.

heartily thanks again for your help.
Best greets,

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

I suggest you review your backup regime. Not sure otherwise. You could post on the libre/openoffice forum.

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vfmla (bernuce) said : 		#4

thank you again andrew! I'm applying a tighter backup now. hope it was not something else.