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I spent hours on composing an obituary using OpenOffice for the first time. I had notes above I pasted on and below that the document. When done I deleted the notes, I thought, but somehow lost the document instead. There was no autosave obviously. There's no trash that I know of to search? Any other recovery method known? Thanks

Edit: Changed subject, was Delete recovery -- MrProgrammer, forum moderator

You can try recover temp copies.

Look in Tools | Options | Load/Save |General and see if Always Create Backup Copy is checked. If it is, look in the backup directory defined in Tools | Options | OpenOffice | Paths. Note that if you hadn't saved the document at some stage earlier in the editing process, there will be no backup.

If

• you never saved the document, and
• AutoRecovery was not enabled

there are no backup files and no temporary files.

These Windows haiku may help ...

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.