Lost data

[Basil Chupin]

On 16/09/2010 16:42, Erlend Clouston wrote:
> Thanks for your interest. It was an Open Office file  produced on my
> Ubuntu 10.04 system - if that helps. I lost about 1,200 words.
> Best wishes - Erlend
>
> On 16/09/10 00:14, Christopher Chan wrote:
>    
>> On Thursday, September 16, 2010 06:07 AM, Erlend Clouston wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Greetings! Part of a very important file I was working on this evening
>>> has vanished. (The other part remains visible.) A techie friend
>>> speculates that I may have accidentally highlighted and then deleted the
>>> vanished section. He says not to worry, as "it will be somewhere on your
>>> hard disc." Hmm. Is there any simple way for a non-techie to test his
>>> thesis?
>>> Thanks for any simple advice.
>>>
>>>        
>> What kind of file is it and what were you using to work on it?
>>      

Please avoid top-posting.

What do you have OO set to automatically make a copy of the document 
which you are typing?

I always play it safe and save every minute.

BC

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