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Hi,
I recently forgot my computer in my school and I had the same day worked with LibreOffice with a important document. When I the next week found my computer, the batteri had gone and when i recharged and opened my important document and window popped up and said something like this: ASCII file options. Below it stated some other options. I pressed OK and then my document came pop up but it was corrupted and just said ########. Is it possible to fix this?
Hi 
If you click the link in tis email or navigate to the right thread in Nabble
then you can upload the file. Just click on
Reply - "More options" - "Upload a file"
Please try to make sure it doesn't have any personal info and if it's
confidential don't upload it at all.
Out of curiosity are you using Windows or Mac or something else? Sometimes
it's possible to find a back-up of your document in the back-ups folder in
your user-profile
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
However i think the default for LibreOffice and OpenOffice is to not save
defaults.
Have you emailed the document to anyone? Is it on a usb-stick or Cd/dvd
somewhere? It might be possible to find a fairly recent copy of the
document somewhere if you are lucky. Sometimes it is just faster to start
again. A lot of the decisions or fiddly things you did first time lurk in
your subconcious so that a document that took a few hours to create might
only take 20mins to re-create.
Regards from
Tom
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3491302/Bokrecension_-_Spår_i_Snö.doc
Bokrecension_-_Sp%C3%A5r_i_Sn%C3%B6.doc
Thanks for the help Tom!
Hi
Thanks for uploading the file
Bokrecension_-_Sp%C3%A5r_i_Sn%C3%B6.doc
It's only 16Kb and when i tried opening it with a te4xt-editor and a
hex-editor but it looked pretty empty with both. I found a lot of tools
that claim to be able to repair doc files but i don't think there is enough
to work with 
Also i have a feeling some are more likely to be malware
than really doing what they claim.
Have you been able to find the backup folder? Hopefully something like
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\backup
Apols and regards from
Tom
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help 
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help
Hi
There seemed to be other problems with the machine so i'm not certain whether it was LibreOffice or a crash or something else that caused the problems. Generally it seems best to save the main copy of documents as OpenDocument Formats such as Odt (for Writer). Do
File - "Save As ..." - "Word (97/2000/Xp)"
only when you think you are ready to (or need to) share with people that don't have LO yet.
A surprising number of people have LO or OpenOffice alongside MS Office now and the numbers seem to be rising. People are sometimes willing to experiment once they realise they can dabble with it and keep MS Office for their "serious" work. Of course some people have no authority to install anything onto their own machines and have no power to change that.
Doc is a fairly vulnerable format and breaks fairly easily but it does have the advantage of being reasonably easy for most programs to read.
If the back-up file works then i recommend saving that as Odt where-ever you were saving the broken document and then save as a Doc so that you can share it easily.
Errrr, since your machine was out of your hands for a while it might be worth updating the anti-virus and doing a full scan fairly soon. Other maintenance such as a defrag might be a good plan if you can find the time to let it get on with that. Avg antivirus and others do a free edition that might be useful. At the moment i quite enjoy Avg but that is just because it's the one they already have at work. I have not looked into which is best.
Congrats and regards from
Tom
Hi again
Errr, if the file was in the back-up folder then open it and save elsewhere to make it your new main copy. Hopefully you might be able to quickly catch up with however much further you had taken it.
Regards from
Tom
Hello,
Sorry Tom but I just that I´ve written wrong. The file wasn`t there. I was
suppose to write wasn´t but I wrote was... So yeah back to scratch one kind
of.
Hi
Ouch Have you emailed it to yourself or anyone? Any copy on another
machine at work, school or home?
regards from
Tom
Noop, I didn´t manage to anything with it.
Well, I think I have to rewrite it then but thank you very much for your
help!
Best wishes from C