URGENT! crashed and cant recover/open open office doc

Kadafi · 13 Jun 2010 at 12:12

My system has just crashed and when I boot back up and tried to open the document I am greeted with ASCII Filter options, I click 'OK' then I am greeted with this error

Document file 'Moncaster%20Isaac%20256186%20Final%20Statement%20 2010.odt' is locked for editing by:

Unknown User

Open document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing.

choosing either option opens a blank document. when I try to re-open the document, the same thing happens. I've tried opening the document via the terminal as root, but still no luck.

Any help would immediately be amazing!

PermaBanned · 13 Jun 2010 at 12:24

Try photorec for file recovery? Not sure though, any more information about the crash?

Kadafi · 13 Jun 2010 at 12:25

laptop over heated i think

tntcoder · 13 Jun 2010 at 14:13

If you want, mail me or upload the doc and I can try and extract the text for you, you would lose all the formatting but better than nothing. I would guess the document header is screwed but the actual data is in tact. Also if that .doc is 0k in size look in the directory for similar files and try them.