Re: Lost file

Roy, my memory is hazy, but there is usually a backup file (".bak"
extension) generated through the auto-save setting (see the "Documents"
tab under the Preferences menu). I seem to recall that this file would
vanish once you saved the latest version of the document you're working
on (depending on the length of time you've set for auto-save). I'm not
sure what happens to the .bak file if you haven't enabled auto-save.
Regardless, the .bak file should appear in whatever directory holds your
abiword docs by default. Be sure to check there.

On the other hand, maybe something else is involved here. You sound
unsure of whether you saved a blank document under the same name. But
you would know for sure, since you'd get a warning about overwriting a
document with the same name. If you don't remember okaying that, the
blank document and the previous long document might be saved in
different directories--assuming you manually saved on or the other in a
directory different from the default one. Time to use a good Search
command to scan your directories.

Hope this helps, or gives you some possible leads. Good luck!

--Mark

Roy Hamaoki wrote:
>
> Hi. I hope someone can help me. I have lost a very lengthy Abiword
> document. I think what may have happened is that I have "saved" a
> blank document over it under the same name. Is there any way to
> recover the original document? Is there any backup of the documents
> somewhere? (I hope)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Roy
>
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Received on Sat Apr 6 01:58:41 2013