In the last couple days I can't get Open Office to perform. All my files I have saved are in this program and that is a lot of time and years of collecting health info and other important stuff. Once my netbook chose to 'restore' some of my files and so I have some that appeared o be duplicates and I was trying to consooidate and cull out repetitious.data., I worked with one file 2 nights ago getting rid of unreadiable content that started with "parn and lots of uninelligible words and I didn't get it all cleared up. Don't know why this happened but now I can't get into any of my files because those 2 I was working between keep popping up with the notification that the files will be recovered and the process begins. But once it says they are recovered and I click finish, they say "The program is not Responding" . I hope someone uses Open Office and might be able to tell me what is happening or how I can fix this so I can at least open my other Office files. I'd appreciate any thoughts Joan You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long or hard the road may be. For without victory, there is no survival. Winston Churchill, May 1940

Hi Joan Do none of your documents open in Open Office or just the odd one or two ? Not sure what the cause of the restore was or what instigated it Could the mentioned duplicates be in fact back ups made by whatever program caused the restore ? The garbled wording is a little odd, certainly nothing I have experienced First thing to say is that your files are not *in* the program but are in its format Your files are separate to it so what you do to the program itself should have no effect on the files You should have a copy (a back up) at least of all files on your computer including all produced or in the Open Office format If not I urge you to do one immediately, preferably more than one, such as using an external hard drive or online storage (such as dropbox) Once you have backed up all your files, if the problem is with all files opening, I would then download a fresh copy of Open Office and reinstall it I have used Open Office for some years but not had the problem you are facing Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 19/08/2013 23:38, Joan Archibald wrote: > In the last couple days I can't get Open Office to perform. All my files I > have saved are in this program and that is a lot of time and years of > collecting health info and other important stuff. Once my netbook chose to > 'restore' some of my files and so I have some that appeared o be duplicates > and I was trying to consooidate and cull out repetitious.data., I worked > with one file 2 nights ago getting rid of unreadiable content that started > with "parn and lots of uninelligible words and I didn't get it all cleared > up. Don't know why this happened but now I can't get into any of my files > because those 2 I was working between keep popping up with the > notification that the files will be recovered and the process begins. But > once it says they are recovered and I click finish, they say "The program > is not Responding" > . > I hope someone uses Open Office and might be able to tell me what is > happening or how I can fix this so I can at least open my other Office > files. I'd appreciate any thoughts > > Joan