recovered document has no text, mostly pound signs

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I just recovered an ODT document I had accidentally deleted from the recycling bin. It said it's "excellent", but there is just the title of the file and a whole bunch of symbols, mostly pound signs. When I open it, Open Office prompts me to choose ASCII Filter Options. I don't really know what that means, so I left it on the default: Western Europe (Windows-1252/WinLatin 1). This is a little of what the first line says:

########<1######àl¤Aû¦Î#C#:#\#U#s#e#r#s#\

It doesn't seem like the content was actually recovered. Could someone tell me if there's an chance at all to recover it?

Thanx.

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Hi Isis4, and welcome to Piriform.

Until someone comes up with something better, all I can suggest is to make a copy of that recovered file, and then open the copy with Open Office and follow the suggested recommendation re ASCII Filter Options.

Let us know if that makes a difference.