Re: [libreoffice-users] Cal file not recovering

On 07/02/2016 01:51 PM, Pat Brown wrote:
> I was sending a cal document to be printed but the print never went through
> and LO hung. I had to close LO down. When I restarted LO I got the message
> that there was a file that needed to be recovered. I instructed to start
> recovery but it went into working mode and never came out. It is not a big
> file and should not have taken more than a couple of minutes to recover. I
> shut down and tried again a couple of times but without success. On
> searching for that particular file I found two references. The file is
> called "Invoices.ods". I also found "Invoices.ods.lnk" and
> ".~lock.Invoices.ods#". If I delete these last two will that release the
> file for recovery or will I be causing trouble by doing so? Are there any
> other options I can try? And if anyone says "go to backups"  I will choke.
> I had just made a large number of changes to the file and had not had an
> opportunity to do a backup. Hope someone has a solution. Paddy
It is surprizing that you have not had any response(s) yet.

Treat anything I suggest with caution, as I am no expert.

It looks as if you have three "Invoices" references, not two.

You say that you haven't made a recent backup, but have you SAVED your 
file in the form in which you hope it to be? If not, you may be lost.

The "~lock" file is there to indicate that the file is ostensibly in use 
by some application. These "lock" files often get left behind when they 
should have been automatically closed.

If by "shutting down" you mean that you have rebooted, as seems 
probable, then you can blithely erase that "lock" file, and that's the 
first thing I would try.

If you haven't rebooted, you can probably still erase it without adverse 
consequences, but that situation might call for a little more thought, 
such as assuring that some instance of calc is not running in some 
hidden fashion.

Your "invoices.ods" file is the one that holds your spreadsheet. It 
wouldn't be a bad idea to copy it to one or more safe places, just in 
case something goes wrong with your recovery experiments.

The ".lnk" file is probably a "shortcut" to allow loading the calc 
programme, and that particular spreadsheet file, all with one click. It 
should have no negative effects, and I would leave it be.

Let us hope that someone with more assured authority weighs in.

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