Lost documents need recovery help
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 5:03 pm
10 days ago, several open office odt.documents on my desk (cloud) disappeared and i can't find them anymore. I'm with MacOs Big Sur 11.7.4.Need help Any suggestion ??
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OpenOffice doesn't delete or move documents. Not being able to find documents on your Mac doesn't seem like an OpenOffice problem. If you click and hold the OpenOffice icon in the dock, you will see a list of the documents you recently worked with. You could try using Finder → File → Find → 🔍 Search if you know part of the name or can remember some of the content in the document. Learn more about this feature of MacOS with Finder → Help → MacOS Help → 🔍 Search → finding items. Also see Finder → Help → MacOS Help → 🔍 Search → spotlight. You should be making backups of important documents.Bigmanroy53 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 5:03 pm 10 days ago, several open office odt.documents on my desk (cloud) disappeared and i can't find them anymore.
If your Mac has a solid state disk (SSD), "undelete" is likely to be a waste of time because the SSD sets all the bytes of the file to zeros as soon as it's deleted thus you can't recover the former data. This action allows the SSD to create new files more quickly. That's one of the reasons why you need backups of important documents.