I have seen several posts about recovering deleted files, but this situation is different. My wife had a file called Journal.odt in which she kept a lot of important personal information such as special memories about our kids. The other day when she tried to open it in OpenOffice it complained about the format. I had her hit cancel and back out. When I cat the file it is completely empty. ls says the file is 0 bytes.Had she accidentally selected all of the text in the file, hit backspace and saved it there would still be the OpenOffice meta information in the file.I immediately shut her laptop down to prevent making any more changes to disk until I can think of something to do.I have done some complicated things in the past such as using dd to recover raw text off the disk but I have no idea what to do here. Since odt files aren't flat text I can't just pipe the whole disk through grep.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Also if anyone has any insight as to what might have gone wrong I would love to hear it.Thanks
File is mysteriously empty. Options to recover?
linux;files;data recovery