Try this. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-repair-my-corrupted-file/45060 "palmolive@cybermesa.com" palmolive@cybermesa.com – June 6, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Good morning all! I am looking for some guidance/advice/help. My wife created a libreoffice document and when she went back to open it it opened but with a dialog box offering "force quit" or "wait". Waiting just hung. Force quit dropped back to the desktop. In an effort to fix this problem, I did a quick internet search and tried the following: killall soffice.bin nothing happened... next rm -rf~/.config/libreoffice The second command I ran twice as I left a space in front of the .config I next opened libreoffice which took its time. It opened but showed no files available to open. I restarted and it welcomed me to ubuntu like a new install. Now appears there are no files on the disk. As you might imagine, this constitutes a catastrophic fail on my part. Any thoughts, advice, or assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks. Mike
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