Hi :) If it's saved in odt or docX then you could try opening the file with an archive manager. I might be able to have a look in Ubuntu using LibreOffice 3.3.2 if you send me the attachment off-list. Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: John B <jo...@email2.me> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 22 July, 2011 18:37:22 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] help recovering? I do not know if this will help, but viewers can be more forgiving than editors. Try http://www.officeviewers.com/ or http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/EN/index_3.html if it does - you will have to copy & paste back into LO again you might have to google a few more until you find one that works. regards John B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 22/07/2011 17:42, JeepNut wrote: > Hoping for some good news here. > Am using the openSuSE branded version of LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO330m19 > (Build:301) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1 on openSuSE 11.3 and KDE 4.4.4-1.5. > > Was editing a document that is pretty important (to me at least) and during > the process had tried to add a footnote. > I was editing the text in the footnote and almost immediately there was some > flashing of the screen and LibreOffice crashed, locking up the entire PC. > No mouse control, no keyboard control, nothing. > So I had to "reset" the PC. > Now the document is fubar. When I try to open it, LibreOffice attempts to > recover but fails. > Then it tries to repair the file but opens only a blank page. > I've tried to open it without an extension and get a list of a variety of > application types to attempt any modicum of recovery, but no matter what I > try to open it with it either fails, or opens in a file of unreadable > gibberish. > I'd be THRILLED if someone would be able to actually recover this document > for me. > Nothing secret in it, I'd be happy to email it to anyone who'd like to give > it a try. Even just to get back the text out of it so that I could rebuild > would be fabulous. > > Any chance at all to recover? > > > -- > View this message in context: >http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/help-recovering-tp3191906p3191906.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.901 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3781 - Release Date: 07/22/11 >10:32:00 > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
