Lost data by saving over a document...

[vitiscriabine]

Hi,

i work for a writer who has an Imac (macosX) with OpenOffice 1.1.3, he wrote a document of 70 pages, and then, i don't know exactly how, he saved a blank page over this document. So he lost all the text.
He really need to get that text back...

So is there any solution to recover that text ?
Does openoffice makes temporary saves somewhere ?
I'm going to try with Data Rescue, but as it's not really a standard erasement, i'm not sure it's going to work.

Thanks a lot,

Thibault.

[OPENSTEP]

OpenOffice.org doesn't make backups unless it's been explicitly configured...its own restore files are used only for crash recovery, not after regular saves have occurred. However...

There is a bug in OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 (?) that causes it to not erase all of its temporary files. Look in /var/tmp. You'll see a whole bunch of "sv*.tmp" files in there. You may be able to recover something out of those. There may also be tmp files left around in the directory in which the user saved their file. If memory serves me correctly, some of those may in fact really be zip archives with the OOo XML format inside it, but I'm not 100% certain.

Perhaps there is a good reason not to fix bugs after all

ed

[vitiscriabine]

Héhé.
Thanks for helping.
I did it using Data rescue. And it worked.