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<P><FONT SIZE=2>In my quest to get used to OpenOffice 1.0 on my Mandrake 9.0 partition rather than Office 2000 on my W2K partition, I was temporarily set back last night when, after typing in a whole page worth of document, OO just "vanished" when it tried to save my document. I clicked on "File/Save As" and put in the file name, and it vanished! All my typing had gone. I solved the problem by rebooting W2K and typing it in all over again using Word. A rather unsatisfactory conclusion to the exercise, but 100% reliable. Unlike OO.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>There was, however, a .tmp file in the Dogfenni (documents) directory, but OO couldn't open it. Does this mean anything?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am running an ext3 filesystem. This is allegedly journalled. Therefore, is there a way to recover a deleted file, or a temporary file? If not, what's the point of journalling?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm frustrated Linux user, who is using it less and less because</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>1. There are no drivers or applications for my Panasonic DV camera</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>2. There are no drivers or applications for my CanoScan USB scanner</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>3. Applications frequently crash (see above), losing data (although the OS is stable)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>4. My copy of windows works fine thank you very much, even though I'd prefer to use Linux</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>5. I haven't found an alternative to Microsoft Publisher</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On a more positive note, I'd love to use Linux more (I loved Unix in college); I'm advocating it as much as I can; and I think this group is an excellent resource. Thanks for all your input!</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Marcus</FONT>
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