Hi :) So it meant that instead of discovering a bug with LibreOffice it was a discovered problem with the 3rd party's website and their strange way of setting up their downloads.
The question was whether reporting a bug against LibreOffice might improve LibreOffice's handling of Xls files but the answer to that is just "No" and that solves the problem. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Tim Lloyd <tim.ll...@gmx.com> >To: nvrk <nvrk.89...@gmail.com> >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 3:23 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc problem > >It was not a matter of preferences. It was because calc could not open a >.XLS file. On further investigation it was found that it is not an XLS >file hence the problem > >Cheers >On 03/28/2013 01:48 PM, nvrk wrote: >> Is there a reason why the .xls file version is preferred to the .csv >> version from the afr.com site? >> nvsoar >> >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Michael Wu <m...@tercel.com.tw> wrote: >> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Tim Lloyd <tim.ll...@gmx.com >>>>> <mailto:tim.ll...@gmx.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, before I log this as a bug I would like to know whether anyone >>>>> has seen it before/potential fix identified. >>>>> >>>>> I normally use Fedora linux and I download (.XLS) share tables >>>>> from a financial newspaper here in Oz. Yesterday I inadvertently >>>>> clicked on the wrong table by accident and tried to open it. Calc >>>>> locked up! No problem with the files I normally look at, Calc >>>>> opened them fine. >>>>> >>>>> So I tried again today and waited for an error - "LibreOffice >>>>> 4.0.1.2 General input/output error". So I hopped over to the >>>>> windows PC and tried LO portable. Same error. The error was >>>>> repeated whether I tried to open directly from the website or if I >>>>> saved to disk and then attempted to open the file. MS Excel has no >>>>> problems. >>>>> >>>>> The file in question is accessible using this link: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.afr.com/share_tables/ >>>>> >>>>> Just click on the xls link next to "Warrant Market" >>>>> >>>>> Any comments? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> Since you use Fedora Linux, maybe you can try gnumeric as a temporary >>> alternative. >>> >>> Hope it helps and regards, >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> -- >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >>> Problems? >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> deleted >>> > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
