Thank you very much for the help and the tips, which are already configured, even though I wasn't able to find my file yet. But maybe I have't explained mysefl clearly: I had saved the document just before the crash, and then, for some reason, after rerstarting, the version that was there was the one from two days ago. It looks like the system has done a Recovery and turned into the way it was two days ago. Is this possible? Best, Dani <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:21 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On 05/12/2008 11:08 AM, Dani Matielo wrote: > Dear all, > > I use Ubuntu and was working on a file in OpenOffice and the system crashed. > I managed to save the files I was working, and then re-started the system, > but then all the changes I have saved to the file in the last two days are > gone! > > The file is still there, but in an older version. I have searched the system > to try to find other versions, but it seems they don't exist. And I am 100% > sure that I was saving it while I was working. > > I am not an advanced user, though, mostly I try to solve the problems I find > searching foruns and pages on Internet, but I haven't find any information > about these in the last 3 hours of intense research and I have to deliver > this report tomorrow and am a little desperate. > </div>Your work is most likely gone. The reason being is that the default Temporary files path is your tmp directory. When it crashed & you saved your work, it most likely was saved to /tmp. When you rebooted, the system cleared the tmp folder on start up & hence your work. You _may_ get lucky and still find it there, but I doubt it. Have a look in /tmp. Also (see #1 below) check your Paths to see where your 'Backups' path is. You may find that the files are in /home/<user>/openoffice.org2/user/backup if you had #2 below set. This has been an ongoing problem with OOo for as long as I can remember. To avoid this happening in the future: 1. From within OOo: Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Paths|Temporary files - select "Edit" and change the path to something other than /tmp. I generally make a folder in my ~/.<a href="http://openoffice.org" target="_blank">openoffice.org</a> directory or my Documents directory specifically for this very reason. 2. Set "Always create backup copy": Tools|Options|Load/Save|General Good luck. BTW: This will can occur with MS Office & Windows - so it's not just an OOo/Ubuntu thing. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Daniela de Carvalho Matielo <a href="mailto:dacamat@gmail.com">dacamat@gmail.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dde_carvalho@uoc.edu">dde_carvalho@uoc.edu</a> | <a href="mailto:dani@futuro.usp.br">dani@futuro.usp.br</a> <a href="http://www.dacamat.com.br">www.dacamat.com.br</a> "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say an uncommon-place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." ~ Jack Kerouac