Some more information on what happened would help. What distribution/version of Linux are you using? What file system are you using? Do you have any kind of backups? What caused the system to shutdown? Sam. Carl Lindholm wrote: > I need help to recover some files that were not saved properly when > the system was shut down improperly. can this be done? The files are > openoffice files. The recovery program brought back some of them but > not all. > HELP? > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.11 - Release Date: 1/12/2005 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list