Public bug reported:
My release of Ubuntu is 7.04, dated 12/28/07; I installed it in mid
January, 2008, and I've done all the updates.
This problem started a couple of weeks ago. I attached an XP2000 doc to
an email and opened it before sending. It was the wrong doc, so I
deleted it from the email and clicked on the correct doc to open it.
The doc would not open, I received an error notice with the same visual
format as that reported by another person, attached in bug #177710
(involving gedit). The contents of the my error notice were different
from 177710's example, however. My error notice said:
"Could not open the file /home/martha/Documents/clcminutes.doc
gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again.
Character coding Current Locale (UTF-8)
Western (ISO-8859-15)"
I then realized that a whole section of folders and contents, which I had been
storing on my desk top, had disappeared. I later discovered these in the
trash. When I tried to extract any docs from the files in the trash, they
would not open, and showed error notices like the one described above.
I paused for a week and worked around the problem, accessing some of my missing
docs by pulling them off of emails in my sent mail cache. I was able to create
new folders and save these onto my desktop. In response to a suggestion from
someone on the tech message board, I tried following some instructions about
testdisk, but ended up lost. (I can't remember if I made that testdisk effort
before or after the next thing): Several days later, I tried dragging the
missing folders out of trash and opening them on the desktop, but the error
message still appeared.
However, after this event, ALL OF THE REMAINING FILES ON MY DESKTOP
BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO OPEN. Also, after I had saved docs to my documents
file, and to my thumb drive, all the docs in both places were
inaccessible, with a similar error message.
I've just changed jobs, and don't have much time for this now. If I
can't resolve the problem, I will probably try to reinstall Ubuntu or my
old XP2000 in two weeks, when I again have a free weekend. In the
meantime, my email is working, and I can compose docs, save them, and
attach them to emails, as long as I don't close them first. As soon as
I close a newly saved document, it becomes "locked" by the error
message.
m. mclaren
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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When gedit goes to open my docs, it destroys them
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270149
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