Poiwer Failure = OpenOffice File gone corrupt.

[engelbma]

Hi Everyone,.

I urgently need some help.

Was busy studying and my notes are made in Open Office 3 Spreadsheet.
Once power was back I reboot and have been unable to access my file !!!
I keep on getting "File is locked for Editing by unknown user" - "General Input / Output Error"

Months of work down the drain or is there a way to recover?

I run Fedora Linux.

Please help.

 

[nic777]

Did you Google?

http://www.andybrain.com/archive/mb/open-office-data-recovery.htm

 

[ponder]

no idea but if you want you can upload the file somewhere zipped I can have a look.

 

[MickZA]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502538

See Comment 1, hope you come right.

 

[engelbma]

Thanks to all, will give it a shot later today and feedback.

Did not have time to google as I am behind on my studies, due to the sub-station fire in Centurion had no power from Monday night untill Friday morning

 

[Fudzy]

Sorry but this is one of the many things that OO need to sort out if they want to compete with Ms office.

 

[fskmh]

Sorry but this is one of the many things that OO need to sort out if they want to compete with Ms office.

According to the OP the file was open when there was a power interruption, and the file remained locked afterwards. If you think the situation would've been any different using Word, you're mistaken because it also locks the file to prevent simultaneous editing from more than one instance of itself.

Please go and educate yourself before making useless, arbitrary comments.

 

[wishblade]

Well, at least the OP didnt reboot the doc to find a 0kb file...

Actually open office has a help entry on their site for the OP's problem. So should be fairly quick to sort out.

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[engelbma]

I tried the posts and no luck, I have to face reality and redo my notes when I prepare for exam.

How does the saying go again ....... "Cowboys don't cry !!"

 

[Fudzy]

According to the OP the file was open when there was a power interruption, and the file remained locked afterwards. If you think the situation would've been any different using Word, you're mistaken because it also locks the file to prevent simultaneous editing from more than one instance of itself.

Please go and educate yourself before making useless, arbitrary comments.

Oh relax fanboy, I've had many occurrences of power interruptions using Office and never have I lost a document. It comes back up with a bar indicating the file has been recovered. No problems.

To the OP, sorry you lost your doc dude. Office 2010 Home & Student edition is damn cheap and comes with 3 licenses.

 

[ponder]

I tried the posts and no luck, I have to face reality and redo my notes when I prepare for exam.

How does the saying go again ....... "Cowboys don't cry !!"

If you want zip the file and mail it to me.

 

[SilverNodashi]

Oh relax fanboy, I've had many occurrences of power interruptions using Office and never have I lost a document. It comes back up with a bar indicating the file has been recovered. No problems.

I've had more corrupted files on MS Office than with Open Office, from either power failures or system crashes. OO asks me to recover the file and does a great job of it.

To the OP, sorry you lost your doc dude. Office 2010 Home & Student edition is damn cheap and comes with 3 licenses.

How much is Microsoft paying you for this add?

 

[fskmh]

Oh relax fanboy, I've had many occurrences of power interruptions using Office and never have I lost a document. It comes back up with a bar indicating the file has been recovered. No problems.

So all you've got is the predictable "fanboy" comment when once again your ignorance is showing. OOo also has document recovery, but unfortunately for the OP it cannot work miracles.

To the OP, sorry you lost your doc dude. Office 2010 Home & Student edition is damn cheap and comes with 3 licenses.

And out come the true colours. How's the echo in your cave? BTW, OOo can also recover those broken Word files that come with the 3 licenses ;-).

 

[Fudzy]

So all you've got is the predictable "fanboy" comment when once again your ignorance is showing. OOo also has document recovery, but unfortunately for the OP it cannot work miracles.




And out come the true colours. How's the echo in your cave? BTW, OOo can also recover those broken Word files that come with the 3 licenses ;-).

He lost his document, he was using OpenOffice. It probably wouldn't have happened if he was.using MS Office. What I said is OpenOffice should offer recovery, you're the one having a.frothy hence the fanboy statement.

 

[Fudzy]

How much is Microsoft paying you for this add?

I wish they were. Instead they spent the money on developing a better document suite.

 

[Fudzy]

FWIW you've all ignored the fact that none of your solutions have worked, which is not surprising.

 

[SilverNodashi]

fudzy, stop being so naive. MS office also looses documents. And Open Office also has a document recovery function. Data corruption due to power loss happens even the most expensive software around.

 

[Fudzy]

Yes but I've never not been able to recover an Office file. Ive lost lots of art files and even hard-drives. Stupid load shedding.

Continue using OO then, consider investing in an UPS.

 

[ponder]

Those using open office really should enable automated backups which it saves in a different hidden folder.

 

[Fudzy]

Those using open office really should enable automated backups which it saves in a different hidden folder.

Exactly, like the ~filename.doc that Word uses.