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And I'll answer myself yet again - the LO files are saved with their usual suffixes.

.ODT, .ODS etc.

PhotoRec is churning away. It's obvious I'm going to wind up with a lot of files.

It's my understanding that PhotoRec will identify Libreoffice files as zip files.

Is there an easy or fast way to identify just the LO Writer or Calc files? That would allow me to separate them from actual zip files ...

By way of followup, I had the same thing happen with the Installer for Mint 17 - instead of just upgrading the OS it wiped out every partition on the drive.

Testdisk wasn't able to find the old partitions, so I now have what looks like an very long PhotoRec session pulling files off.

Anyhow ...

Actually I found an answer elsewhere before I could post a question here: in order to search for Libre/OpenOffice files you need to check off ZIP in the filter menu.

I'd suggest that a seperate Libre/Open office checkbox would be nice.

Surprise of the day was when I tried to register for the forum ...