https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126869

--- Comment #30 from orcmid <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to John from comment #29)
> (In reply to orcmid from comment #28)
> > Issue 126990 brings up the special case of a saved document that is found to
> > contain only paragraphs of "#" characters.
> > 
> > It can be addressed separately there.  This is entirely different than cases
> > where the file is damaged or otherwise unreadable.  The file of all "#"
> > content in one or more paragraphs is completely valid and readable.  It just
> > isn't what the user saw as the document being saved.
> 
> A slight correction ...
> 
> A .odt file of all "#"' does not have any structure and cannot be unzipped.  
> 
> When the .odt is opened with a Hex editor, each and every character in the
> file is 00. I will upload such a .odt file of all "#"' at Issue 126990.
> 
[ ... ]

I have personally verified files that open without difficulty and yet present
paragraphs of all "#".  I inspected the .odt, which was a valid Zip, and valid
ODF, and the content of each paragraph element was a lengthy run of "#"
characters.

I have not, on Windows, ever seen a corrupted .odt that does not look like a
Zip in any way shape or form open at all.  There might be something that
triggers the ASCII filter (what kind of text file is this?) sort of thing, but
I have not personally witnessed that with a file of all 00 bytes.  I am very
interested in seeing such an attachment at Issue 126990.  Thank you.

I am not disputing the reported observation.  I am suggesting that there may be
two different situations that have similar symptoms but are quite different.

It could even be the case that the file I inspected at the binary level was a
fabrication or an incorrect save of a file that opened badly, so it was not the
actual defective file.  

Only by gaining more information from users, preferably with the defective file
attached, can we provide certainty.

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