Thanks for the info, have tried all suggestions and confirm it is an
OLE2 file but have not found anything in it!
Not sure I'll continue as it's in one of my Dropbox folders which is
owned by the Church and I don't want to upset anything that might stop
others from seeing files. So it may be an internal file used by Dropbox.
Am going down to the church later so may ask if they know what the file is.
Nothing is shown in the output of 'Olefile' - empty.
Will make a note of the suggestions for future use - Thanks.
C A Wills
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On 16/03/15 18:21, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Clive,
I have 2 files which only have a number similar to 149C6000 with no
extension (that I can see), files are not recognised but info is they
are a 'OLE2 compound document storage'.
Tried adding a known extension but nothing is shown that makes sense.
The only info shown when having an .xls extension, after 'Calc'
conversion, was 'root entry' in the second cell.
`Root Entry' suggests it is OLE2. You could try file(1) on them at the
command line. It may give more detail.
file 149C6000 149C6001
Perhaps strings(1) will show up some text in their content that gives a
clue.
strings 149C6000 >0.str
strings 149C6001 >1.str
There's http://www.decalage.info/olefile which I haven't used, but may
help. To install, see if it's packaged for your distro, or else try
pip install olefile
as that page says. You'll have to find where it has been installed as I
don't think this will be in your PATH, e.g.
sudo find / -name olefile.py
Then you can run it directly with
/above/location/from/find/olefile.py 149C6000 >0.content
Cheers, Ralph.
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