Thanks for your attention to this. I'm away from my home computer now; hopefully this evening I can try your suggestion.
Martha > Right-click on a .doc file, click Properties. In the properties dialog, > click on the Open With tab, and select OpenOffice.org Word Processor. If > you don't see it in the list you can find it by clicking Add. > The only problem I can see is that the default application for .doc files > changed from OpenOffice.org to Gedit. Do you have any idea why? If not, > this bug is incomplete. > Thank you for spending your time on reporting bugs, every little helps. > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: Invalid => Incomplete > > -- > When gedit goes to open my docs, it destroys them > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270149 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > 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 > -- When gedit goes to open my docs, it destroys them https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270149 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
