Ahhhhhhh!!!! Thank you. I am now able to open documents again. (Those
that remain on my desktop, that is.)
No, I don't have a clear idea of what changed the default from
OpenOffice.org to Gedit.I'll copy below my report; the critical step
seems to have been when I deleted the attachment from an email; I have
no clue how that action simultaneously swept an area of my desktop into
the trash, and/or also changed the default application on some docs.
I'm pretty sure I remember that the first thing that I did after
deleting the attachment was to attempt to open another and check to see
if it was what I intended to send. That's when I first saw the gedit
"ERROR" frame -- so, after deleting one doc, I couldn't open another to
see if it was what I wanted. Then, I realized that the whole folder was
gone. I can't figure out how I even accessed the doc at that moment to
attempt to open it, since my next step was to look at the desktop and
realize that the folder holding the doc, and the ones adjacent, were
gone. I have the vaguest memory of something very slightly weird with
the touchpad when I was deleting the doc or searching for the
replacement.
On a slightly different vein -- do you know of any way that I can
recover all my folders and documents that ended up in the trash? When I
try to open them, OpenOffice.org starts up, but nothing happens.
Thanks again for your help. I had been VERY discouraged.
Martha
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
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:25 +0000, David D Lowe wrote:
> 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
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When gedit goes to open my docs, it destroys them
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270149
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