Strange file problem - need help urgently

lucki49 · Newbie Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

Hi everyone,

I have been using Draw for a month now preparing a fairly basic combination of text and images

For some unknown reason, a problem occured when I attempted to just save the file normally and overwrite an older version of the file - the error was something along the lines of 'the file cannot be accessed', so I simply saved it as a new file.

Strange thing now is that both the original file and the new file cannot be opened in DRAW. They appear on my desktop as draw files and can be opened in Photoshop, but for some reason there is now way to make them open in DRAW now - all that happens is that OO reads it as a text file and gives me a bunch of ASCII options before always opening in WRITER.

This is frustrating to say the least as the work was almost complete and now I cannot access it.

How can I go about getting this file to work with OO DRAW again?

Thx in advance

acknak · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:31 am Post subject:

As far as I know, Photoshop cannot open Draw files, so if that's true and Photoshop can open your files, then you've somehow saved your document as an image. Since you overwrote your old file, you are completely out of luck.

However, I don't understand how that would open in Writer...

Can you post your document somewhere so that we could take a look at it?

I've learned the hard way, then when I get an unexpected error during file management, to immediately cancel, stop what I'm doing and re-trace everything step by step. Nine times out of ten, I've made a mistake somewhere and if I'd kept going I would have done Something Bad.

keme · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

A month's work? Do you do backup?
If on a corporate network, ask the IT dept.
If stored on a network server, there may even be a "salvage" option for deleted files, so you don't need to restore from backup. At least, the autosave files will be deleted, and in the "target zone" for a salvage operation. Not sure about the saving strategy of OOo, but that may also be a "save new with temporary name - delete old - rename new" process, like MS Office does.