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I have saved a text document no access

Asked by Benny

I have saved an ODT text document and i cannot gain access . I have previously viewed and edited the document so I am positive it should be there.
However, every time I hit on the document a box appears that states
ASCII Filter Option
Character set : Unicode
Default: fonts
Language : English

When I click ok it opens an empty document with none of my previous work.
Has this file become encrypted ? , how can I access it ?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Is the file owned by your user?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

To find out some more information about that file you might do the following:

open a terminal (e.g. by simultaneously pressing ctrl-alt-t)
change directory to the area where that file is
(issue the appropriate "cd" command, something like cd /home/benny/Documents )

issue the command
ls -l xxfilenamexx
(provide the name of the file in that command and note the protection settings and ownership information)

issue the command
file xxfilenamexx
(provide the name of the file in that command and look what Ubuntu thinks that the file contents are)

issue the command
strings xxfilenamexx
(provide the name of the file in that command and look whether you can see text snippets from inside the file or not)

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