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A way to recover earlier version of odt file?

Asked by animesh.371@gmail.com

Hello all. I saved a document with OpenOffice Word to my desktop, then I force shut down my laptop (held down the power button), and restarted. I tried to open the file again, but it kept opening with gedit. I check the properties and it was 0 kb, so I just decide to look in the "backup" folder and that file is also 0 kb. Is there a way that I can restore a previous version of this file?

Please reply back, need 15 pages back for GIANT senior paper. Thanks!

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Luke Jennings (ubuntujenkins) said : 		#1

Unfortunately unless you have a copy stored somewhere else I don't think that you will get it back. I expect the forced shutdown stopped it finishing the save. You could try searching your computer for the file name just in-case but you are unlikely. Have you tried opening up open office and then using that to open the file? Good luck in finding it.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

Yep, maybe nothing is saved, maybe you've fortune.
When you opened the file with OpenOffice before it should appear in history, usually shows last used 10 files, it's name and path.
When you start OpenOffice per default it tries to restore files after crashing, because it autosaves per default all 15 minutes. (option menu - load/save)

PhotoRec is a common favourite tool:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

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