broken.english
Jedi Council Member
Unfortunately I work with a very old laptop and many of my files have somehow converted themselves to ODT files so I am unable to open valuable files that could be lifesaving. Does anyone have any advice on whether I can get them back to Word Documents? I have nearly 90k so a technical guy here wold need to know how to find/select them all!
This naturally leads me to asking for advice on best storage media that can last into the future, and not be obsolete due to new versions of Microsoft. Some have recommended that I store all files on PDF to prevent corruption. Is this a way forward? As it will be of concern to all of us.
Oh dear,
your files did not convert themselves! This must be initiated by the user.
What is more likely is that a large part of your 90k files was not written by yourself but imported, already in ODT format.
Alternatively you might have temporarily used OpenOffice or Libreoffice, but you would remember this, wouldn't you?
Solutions:
- as Mark suggested you could download either OpenOffice or LibreOffice for free. It will be abt. 200 MB.
- if space is limited you could download a free ODT viewer(read only) which is tiny from here:
As for files storage, PDF is generally okay but will need some more space than ODT and doc files.