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birdographer

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3. If the USB backup was gone,
Wed May 1, 2024, 03:50 PM
May 2024

then it somehow didn't get saved in the first place, for some reason the program didn't register it.

I finished a novel recently (my first and last). I started it in Pages. Same thing happened to me, I lost 9 hard-won pages of writing that had been on the screen when I did a Save and then Save As elsewhere. Gone. I left Pages, tried LO as well as two other Word-like apps. Finally paid for Word. Too many tutorials were teaching how to do stuff in Word, which, no longer being the computer whiz I used to be, did me no good.

Anyway, my sympathies for the loss. Put it in two different apps altogether in the future before closing up?

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Any Libre Office users here? [View all] grumpyduck May 2024 OP
Years ago, like 2002 bucolic_frolic May 2024 #1
Thanks. I did back up to a stick grumpyduck May 2024 #2
File recovery software bucolic_frolic May 2024 #5
If the USB backup was gone, birdographer May 2024 #3
I use the spreadsheet part of LibreOffice, not the word processor. RipVanWinkle May 2024 #4
Running on Windows, Linux, Mac? How did you search the computer for the backups? Wonder Why Jun 2024 #6
Running Windows, thanks. grumpyduck Jun 2024 #7
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