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    Problem with Libre Office?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Metallica93, Jul 13, 2011.

  1. Metallica93

    Metallica93 Notebook Consultant

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    I opened my Documents tab and saw that every document had the Libre Office symbol next to it (good sign). But I also saw 4 folders that had a name similar to "cc_20110625_000807" and would only open to this:

    ÿþW#i#n#d#o#w#s# #R#e#g#i#s#t#r#y# #E#d#i#t#o#r# #V#e#r#s#i#o#n# #5#.#0#0#

    This was the smallest of the 4 folders. The others would have a lot of numbers and such spaced out with "#." I think these 4 things were folders that contained more documents (like the folder would be called "Guitar" and it contained Word documents pertaining to whatever guitar stuff I had in there).

    Is there any way to get these back open? I can't even remember what all 4 folders were specifically called.
     
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    Metallica93 Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry to seem impatient, but "bump."
     
  3. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    This doesn't really have anything to do with LibreOffice... it seems like your filesystem is partially corrupt. Have you run a scandisk? Hope your disk isn't going bad.

    Unfortunately there aren't a lot of good ways to identify what those files are. It almost looks as if some program went through and automatically reformatted some files or something. The fact that your first pasted bit says Registry Editor in it makes me think that was a .reg file. It could even be that filesystem nodes were corrupted and saying something is a folder when it's not or something along those lines.
     
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    I ran scandisk and I'm not exactly sure what that did. I assume it helped in some way, but you know what they say about assuming :p And yes, they are "REG" files (all 4 of them). I shall consider simply deleting them if you agree that is the correct path. If they were merely files containing documents then it should be no big loss.