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I had saved a .odt file in my windows 8.1, in which I had saved credentials associated with each and every website I had account on. When I opened that file in ubuntu its email/username and in few cases passwords are also missing! Note that I saved username and password in comments in .odt file. Also, in both windows 8.1 and ubuntu, I used LibreOffice Writer to make/use/edit the file. Now I had removed the windows 8.1 and installed ubuntu instead. Why does that happen? How can I recover the email/user(which are different for different websites and too many) in ubuntu?

An example of what I saved in windows 8.1 and what I get in ubuntu(14.04 LTS):

As saved in Windows:

Username: abc@gmail.com

Password: abcdxyz

As I get in Ubuntu:

Username:

Password: abcdxyz

In some cases I wrote multiple username/email and passwords in a single comment and in that cases passwords are also missing(only in few). Please help me recover those missing words in ubuntu!

Ankur Shah
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Try this:

  1. Unzip the .odt file to a folder.
  2. Open content.xml in a web browser.
  3. Start at <office:body> and look for comments, probably in office:annotation tags.

Is the data there? If so, then move the usernames and passwords to a better place. Especially I would not rely on comments for such valuable information.

If not, then the data is no longer in the document, and must have been deleted earlier.

Jim K
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