File recovered, now not opening

[Musicboy32]

Hi guys,

I made the mistake of forgetting to unmount a flash drive before I removed it, and then lost the file I needed, a paper I was working on. (I moved it, I didn't copy...stupid)

Well, I got a file recovery program to go to work on it, and I have the file now, accessible through root, and I've located it in Dolphin as root, however I can't open the file, I think because I'm not logged in as root, just using sudo (Kubuntu, btw). I'm not extremely comfortable navigating the file system through the command line, but I think that's what I need to do to open it with openoffice to recover the content. Can anyone tell me what command I use to open the file with a certain program through the command line?

Thanks

[Jonathan183]

I suggest instead of trying to run openoffice as root you use either chown (to change the file ownership to your regular user) or chmod to change the file access properties to allow your regular user access

man chown chmod

will give information, and if you open a terminal and cd to the folder with the file in and type

sudo ls -l

you should get information on the file, who owns it, who can read it etc.

[Musicboy32]

Thanks a lot. I've been traveling all week, but when I get back I'll try that and see how it works out.