Open Office 4 problem

Glad

I had a spreadsheet on open office, earlier my laptop crashed, when I restarted it there were Windows updates installing, after this I went to open office and it asked me to set up a username etc

when I opened open office after this none of my old files/spreadsheets are there

is there a way of recovering them?

rizla_king

Not there in the quick launch screen or not there on your hard disk where they would have been saved? Sounds like just corrupted config files rather than document actually being wiped.

Glad

normally when I start open office I go to recent docs and open from there, where would I find it on the hard drive? running Windows 8.1

S0litaire

If you "show hidden files and folders" on the view menu of the file browser.

Openoffice usualy has a temporary copy of the file prefixed with the tilde (~)mark (i.e. : "~NewDocument.odt").

It should save the document automatically (of it's not been turned off!)

Glad

S0litaire wrote: »

If you "show hidden files and folders" on the view menu of the file browser.

Openoffice usualy has a temporary copy of the file prefixed with the tilde (~)mark (i.e. : "~NewDocument.odt").

It should save the document automatically (of it's not been turned off!)

I may need simpler language sorry, but if you mean the view menu on open office there is no "show hidden files and folders"

it seems that the windows updates wiped the old open office and I had to register again

Glad

now sorted

thank you

macman

So you have no back up to an external drive then? I'd do that as a priority before you lose all your data.