Okay, so I was working on a paper that somebody in my group project for school had sent me through email. I assumed that when I saved it in ooWriter, it would save in the usual user space. NOT THE CASE. It was saved in temp. As soon as my computer was rebooted, all of my work was gone.
To prevent this from happening to others, it would be beneficial for recovery purposes to set a timestamp a week in the future (or some user defined time) to mark the time for the deletion of temporary files.
This could have been avoided, if when opening the file from Thunderbird, it would put a copy outside of temp, or when saving in ooWriter, it would have realized it was saving to the temp directory and given me a warning.
Still, for general recoverability purposes, a timestamp-based solution seems reasonable.
So the main suggestions I'd make out of this event:
-Get OpenOffice and other applications to generate warnings about saving in the temp directory.
-Give temp files a certain amount of time to be recovered.
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