[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When writer tries to recover the file, sometimes it is successful others
times not (same file). That seems to depends on if I rename the file and try to
open it. If I hit cancel (recovery stage) it will open the recovered file
(different named, same file) and lock up. If I am not posting this to the
wright place please let me know and where to post this. If I can edit the file,
I might be able to get it to work.
Regards
Rene
Copy to OP.
As stated before, all document files in the *.odt format are zipped
files. Normal pkzip files. In order to edit them, you have to unzip
the files.
On Linux, I just type in unzip xyz.odt and end up with a bunch of files
and some subdirectories.
drwxr-xr-x 10 xxx xxx 4096 2008-03-06 11:06 Configurations2
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 82539 2006-11-15 20:49 content.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx xxx 4096 2008-03-06 11:06 META-INF
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 1280 2006-11-15 20:49 meta.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 39 2006-11-15 20:49 mimetype
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 8260 2006-11-15 20:49 settings.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 17028 2006-11-15 20:49 styles.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx xxx 4096 2008-03-06 11:06 Thumbnails
The file you are looking at is content.xml which is a standard xml file.
Now for an interesting part. I had an issue with 2.3 corrupting files
on a computer but 2.3.1 would open those files with no issues. Make
sure you have the latest version of OOo. I had the same symptoms that
you are describing.
If the file won't unzip then you may have a corrupted file and some
programs can make attempts to fix corrupted zip files. If the file does
unzip, then the problem is internal to the document.
Also search for the same file name on your computer. There may be an
older or temp file that is okay.
Also check the tmp directories for files with the same date/time as the
original file corruption date.
--
Robin Laing
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