The archive manager uses other archive utilities to actually manipulate archives.
Try using 7zip directly if that is on your system. It has a test option. It will test the document for integrity and also report on what files are in it. *Inside* of the document package there will be a content.xml file. If that file is present and is reported to be correct, you can extract it. 7zip has a command line operation (named 7z or 7za). Here's an example using a command line and 7za.exe in a Windows console session: C:\command>7za t OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt 7-Zip (A) 4.42 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-05-14 Processing archive: OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt Testing mimetype Testing Configurations2\statusbar Testing Configurations2\accelerator\current.xml Testing Configurations2\floater Testing Configurations2\popupmenu Testing Configurations2\progressbar Testing Configurations2\toolpanel Testing Configurations2\menubar Testing Configurations2\toolbar Testing Configurations2\images\Bitmaps Testing content.xml Testing manifest.rdf Testing styles.xml Testing meta.xml Testing Thumbnails\thumbnail.png Testing settings.xml Testing META-INF\manifest.xml Everything is Ok C:\command>7za e OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt content.xml 7-Zip (A) 4.42 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-05-14 Processing archive: OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt Extracting content.xml Everything is Ok C:\command> The content.xml file will be in XML markup format. There is a *lot* of markup. it is tricky to remove the markup and leave just the text. If a Zip utility will not access the document, or reports that it is corrupt, you may need to track down a Zip repair utility. I have no experience with those and can make no recommendation. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: JeepNut [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 17:50 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering? On 07/22/2011 09:42 AM, 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? ... Open it with archive manager and see if there is any info in content.xml. Any surviable text should be in that file. BTW: Do you by chance have an intel graphics card in your system? Nope. XFX GEForce 6800 GS 256Mb, -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/help-recovering-tp3191906p3194503.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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
