Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Emacs sounds great! It's not just in Ubuntu, it should be easy to get in any GnuLinux such as SuSE, Mageia/Mandriva, Redhat/CentOS, Fedora, Debian/Mint, Android/Blackberry/Chrome. The question is how easy is it to get for the Mac with a failing hard-drive or a laptop (that probably runs

[libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread melodyfire
My husband has been working on a spreadsheet for over a month when last night our laptop was unplugged. The battery is busted and the only way to keep the laptop on is to have it plugged in. When he booted the laptop back up he was prompted to recover the file and the recovery failed.He is them

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) 1st thing is to copy the file that appears to be corrupted. 2nd is to find the User Profile and inside it the back-up folder and copy the relevant file that is hopefully in there too. Preferably put those copies on Usb-stick or email them to yourselves so that you have a copy that hasn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, so you have made a copy of the corrupted file. The User Profile is here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile well, that's the guide that describes where it is on the various different systems. I tend to try a few different approaches all at about the same time when faced

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread mcmurchy1917-libreoffice
If you can't find a backup. Try this. You seem to indicate that the corrupted spreadsheet is called *name name.ods*. If that is what it is called copy the corrupted file to an empty folder/directory. In that folder/directory there should now only contain the file *name name.ods* unzip this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) After you have created copies of the files can you rename the file ending of one from .ods to .zip and then double-click on that? It should open as though it is a compressed file so an archive manager should open it. If it works it wont look anything like the file! You should see various

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Zeki Bildirici
13 Oca 2014 19:17 tarihinde melodyfire cowens33...@gmail.com yazdı: Hi, File corruption may occur in all platforms due to similar reasons. Dont be upset. Thanks to odf format the file can be examined. Probably some xml errors in styles.xml. If you have Ubuntu, install Emacs. It comes with great