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
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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Hello MIke,I'm sorry to hear of your missing file. You might try:(1) If you haven't already, search your trash, the path which might be something like: ~/.local/share/Trash/files(2) Run the command: find ~ -iname '*string*' # Where "string" is a piece of the name of your missing file. You can use "globbing".(3) Or try: find ~ -atime 2 || -ctime 2 # Any file accessed or changed within the last 2x24=48 hours(4) Or try: find ~ -ctime 2 -and -iname '*string*' # Etcetera, etcetera ...(5) Or, use some special software for recovering files which were removed with the command "rm". good luck,Doug.
Not sure you can get the whole user directory including subdirectories back without a pre configured backup utility. This is what I have done: unplug the disk with the deleted files on it. On a new disk install ubuntu and if ext4 the app extundelete does a good job. For photos use testdisk or photorec. Then plug in the disk as a second drive or external drive and try the tools. The main issue is anything you do on the disk with the deleted files causes some to be written over. On Sun, Jun 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM <cactuswand@hushmail.com> wrote:
Hello MIke, I'm sorry to hear of your missing file. You might try: (1) If you haven't already, search your trash, the path which might be something like: *~/.local/share/Trash/files* (2) Run the command: *find ~ -iname '*string*' * # Where "string" is a piece of the name of your missing file. You can use "globbing". (3) Or try: *find ~ -atime 2 || -ctime 2 * # Any file accessed or changed within the last 2x24=48 hours (4) Or try: *find ~ -ctime 2 -and -iname '*string*' * # Etcetera, etcetera ... (5) Or, use some special software for recovering files which were removed with the command "rm".
good luck, Doug.
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