Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 22:34 +1000, Pete Crite a écrit :
> Thank you so much for that. The new file works fine. It's mainly
> raw(ish) data, so styles don't matter very much.
> 
> How could this have happened though? I certainly never made those
> changes to my file intentionally.

This is a good question. The file was generated with 1.10.17. If you did
not change the sheet sizes in the preferences or just for this file,
it's a bug. We just should need a reproducible way to fire that before
it can be fixed.

> Cheers,
> Pete.
> 
> On 09/07/13 22:10, Jean Brefort wrote:
> > Looks that the sheets are very large: 16384 columns and 1048576 rows,
> > and I suppose you don't have terabytes RAM. Changing that to the default
> > and removing some StyleRegion nodes extending to rows larger than
> > 1000000 made things work much more fluently. I'll send you back the
> > fixed file. I just hope I did not accidentally removed a needed style.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jean
> >
> > Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 21:26 +1000, Pete Crite a écrit :
> >> Thanks for that. I've forwarded the file you you (Jean).
> >>
> >> I tried opening the uncompressed version in gnumeric, and I didn't think
> >> it worked. However, about 2–5 minutes later, gnumeric launched with the
> >> file. I tried to "save as" another file, but now it appears to have
> >> frozen again. It's running on two full cores, so I'll wait and see if it
> >> can write the file correctly, but there appears to be some issue with
> >> the file and/or gnumeric at least.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Pete.
> >>
> >> On 09/07/13 21:09, Jean Brefort wrote:
> >>> You don't need to compress the gnumeric file again. Gnumeric can read
> >>> uncompressed files. Hard to say why you can't open it without actually
> >>> seeing the contents. If the file does not contain confidential data,
> >>> please file a bug report and attach the file. Otherwise you might send
> >>> it to one of us, and we'll delete it when done.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Jean
> >>>
> >>> Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 21:01 +1000, Pete Crite a écrit :
> >>>> Great! Thanks for that. The file does gunzip fine. The xml looks normal
> >>>> enough, and validates online [1]. Is there a way to now feed this
> >>>> information back into gnumeric, without having to manually pick through
> >>>> the xml?
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried gzipping this xml again, but this also failed to open in
> >>>> gnumeric. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the new gzipped file
> >>>> differed from the original gnumeric file.
> >>>>
> >>>> When I started with `gnumeric /path/to/file.gnumeric`, I get no messages
> >>>> in the console.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers, and thank you for the help so far.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 09/07/13 18:00, Jean Brefort wrote:
> >>>>> I believe it's better to rename to file.gnumeric.gz, then `gunzip
> >>>>> file.gnumeric.gz`.
> >>>>> When you start `gnumeric /path/to/file.gnumeric`, do you get any message
> >>>>> in the console?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>> Jean
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 01:55 -0600, Andreas Guelzow a écrit :
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> .gnumeric files are compressed xml files. So the first thing to try is
> >>>>>> to uncompress the file. On Kubuntu you may want to rename the
> >>>>>> file.gnumeric to file.zip and see whether the archive manager can open
> >>>>>> the file then. If you are successful then the extracted file will give
> >>>>>> you all the information that is still available.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Andreas 
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 17:14 +1000, Pete Crite wrote:
> >>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm trying to open a gnumeric file that had worked in the past for me.
> >>>>>>> Opening the file via `xdg-open` fails silently. Opening the file with
> >>>>>>> `gnumeric /path/to/file.gnumeric` freezes the command line and fails
> >>>>>>> silently. Launching Gnumeric first, then opening the file from within
> >>>>>>> the program causes the "Reading file…" progress bar to freeze while 
> >>>>>>> loading.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm happy to try and find the cause of this bug, but I have some
> >>>>>>> important files that I need to extract from the gnumeric file 
> >>>>>>> urgently.
> >>>>>>> Is there a way to recover the contents of the file? I tried opening 
> >>>>>>> with
> >>>>>>> a plain-text editor, but the contents were garbled. Similarly,
> >>>>>>> Libreoffice Calc didn't know about this format.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>> Pete.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Kubuntu 13.04
> >>>>>>> Gnumeric 1.12.1
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