Hey Allan,

that's exactly the problem I've. Maybe the POI has some bugs?



2012/10/5 allan <[email protected]>

> Hi Hans,
> I took your block of code and created same worksheet under Ubuntu 10x,
> opened it with Excel 2010 and got an error: "File error: data may have been
> lost."
> I have, at this location, several product Excel files which were created
> on a similar machine, Ubuntu 10.x, that open fine on same windoz machine.
> There seems to be a difference between these two laptops which I will
> investigate. The only problem: one of them is many miles from my current
> location so this may take some time. In the meantime, maybe someone has
> input to this problem.
> Peace,
>
>
>
>
> On 10/04/2012 11:40 AM, Hans Maulwurf wrote:
>
>> Well yes, I used different Excel versions (2003 & 2010) and even different
>> Windowz (XP & 7), always the same :/
>> I don't think it's an encoding problem, because I create an empty file
>> (same if I fill some cells) so there are no special characters. Would it
>> help if I send you the xls?
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/10/4 allan <[email protected]>
>>
>>  Would I be correct in assuming that in all cases, one version of MS Excel
>>> has been used to elicit the problem?
>>> Have you, by chance, used another windoz machine and/or another version
>>> of
>>> Excel for opening the "suspect" file?
>>> Just a hunch, here...
>>> BTW, what version of Excel are you using?
>>> Peace,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/04/2012 02:13 AM, Hans Maulwurf wrote:
>>>
>>>  I don't understand it ... changing to java6 didn't solve it. I set up a
>>>> new
>>>> virtual machine Xubuntu and installed openjdk6 and netbeans from
>>>> repository. I changed nothing, I'm only running these lines
>>>>
>>>>       public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
>>>>
>>>>           HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
>>>>           FileOutputStream fileOut = new
>>>> FileOutputStream("/home/****muench/workbook_test.xls");
>>>>
>>>>           wb.write(fileOut);
>>>>           fileOut.close();
>>>>       }
>>>>
>>>> But opening the xls under Windows with Microsoft Office it shows the
>>>> same
>>>> behaviour ... I don't know how to continue :/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/10/4 Hans Maulwurf <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>   Maybe the java6 and java7 lead to this behaviour? Under Windows I used
>>>>
>>>>> java6, I wanted to have an up-to-date-Ubuntu so I installed java7. I
>>>>> will
>>>>> try to switch to java6 and report here.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012/10/3 Hans Maulwurf <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>>   No, I used the same version of poi on windows, saved the files and
>>>>> used
>>>>>
>>>>>> it on linux again. Replacing them with fresh downloaded doesn't change
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> situation. When compiling/debugging/creating there is no error, only
>>>>>> opening with Microsoft Office shows this error (about 3 times) and
>>>>>> then
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> sheets are shown correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012/10/3 Nick Burch <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Hans Maulwurf wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   I'm using poi-3.8-20120326.jar and that's the same I used on
>>>>>>> Windows.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> don't use a '/' in sheetnames, the same error comes when I only
>>>>>>>> create a
>>>>>>>> workbook and save it as xls, without cells or sheets, only the
>>>>>>>> default
>>>>>>>> sheets.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Are you sure that there are no differences in POI versions? Could
>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>> perhaps be an older version of POI lurking somewhere on your
>>>>>>> classpath?
>>>>>>> (Check the FAQ for how to find them).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've had no ubuntu-specific POI problems that I can think of lately,
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> I've been using POI on ubuntu for a very long time now!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>>
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