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I was a user of ubuntu 8 or whatnot a couple of years ago,nowadays I've been working with Ubuntu 14.04 for some time and I've picked up the habit of putting my thoughts into a simple gedit document. However, as the system tends to crash every once in a while for absolutely no good reason (Toshiba is one, though), I often forget to save the document before I am forced to restart the computer. I can see the back up file right below the original one, yet when I try to open it it will try to find a program to do it, yet quite unsuccessfully. Is there anyone out there who can help me, por favor?

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Gedit itself is used to open backup files . Right click on file open with gedit Or Open terminal to that path and type 

gedit filename

(filename that ends with ~) If u forget to save file i recommend to turn on autosave after every x min in preference option of gedit

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  • Thanks, I should have thought of it, this was definitely not a problem worthy of mentioning...
    – Jakub Stibranyi
    Oct 9, 2016 at 16:26
  • Yes.. consider accepting as solution if it helps! And mark it green checkmark√
    – minigeek
    Oct 9, 2016 at 16:28

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