Open office.org recovery question...?

Question

Right-o.
Ive done a horribly foolish thing and not saved my work for the last hour whilst using openoffice.org writer. And then it stopped functioning. With the recovery function all I got was what was saved anyway. Is there any chance at all of getting what I had before, or is it lost to eternity?

Thanks, Tom

If the files are saved temporarily, should they still be on my system and hence recoverable manualy? If so, would anyone have an idea where if ive installed it to the suggested directory?

Answer 1

I've done that and I've been working on computers long enough to know better - but sometimes we just get carried away while we create.

Do you have the Open Office tutorial?
tutorial at: http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/

Open Open Office and see if your file is listed under previously opened files. If it does, click it and see if auto-recovery saved any part of it for you. If it does not appear, I'm afraid it was lost. However long we work, we are in memory. Nothing is saved until we save it to a file on disk.

Answer 2

the recovery feature should save your work every 10 minutes. you can adjust that in the preferences. but no, you probably will have to redo it.