Where'd it go?

D

dw3284

I have a word file that I had been working with and had
gotten up to 49 pages of text (no graphics). I had saved
the file several times. The phone rang, stepped away from
my system and when I came back my system was frozen.

I rebooted my system but when I went back to bring the
file back up, it only had two pages of the 49 pages I had
entered. The catch is the file size is 224kb.

I started retyping the document and when I got to 9 pages
I saved and closed the document it was already 21kb in
size. So how could my 2 page document be 224kb?

Is it possible that the information is still there? What
can I do to recover it?

--D
 
K

Klaus Linke

Hi --D,

In File>Open, you could try the converter for "Recover text from any file".
This might give you the raw, unformatted text, plus some garbage to clean
up.

I'd also open a new empty document and use "Insert > File...". Not too much
hope, but it can't hurt to try.

An empty document usually has about 19kB. There should be *something* in
those 224kB.

Some users have said that OpenOffice Writer sometimes can open slightly
corrupted documents. If you have installed it anyway, you could try to open
it there, and save (possibly better in RTF or HTML format, since that often
gets rid of corruptions).

If something like this happens more often, I'd check the hardware (hard
disk) for faults. If it happens when you are gone from the computer some
time, you might also turn off some power saving (ACPI) options to see if
those are to blame (for example switching off the HD).

Greetings,
Klaus
 
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