Hi :) That is where i get completely stuck, especially if i can see the xml. Luckily my text editor can be switched from reading "Plain text" to "html/css" which just about covers xml too so at least i can roughly work out which bits are the texts. With no xml at all or very little then i would be very stuck.
Is everything in Csv format with commas between columns and a new-line for a new row? If so then copy&paste sounds like one possible but messy route! Tbh if OpenOffice can deal with this file and LO can't then i would recommend either having both installed or just going back to OpenOffice for a while. They are so similar in code-base and ideals that it's not worth struggling. Of course LO is better but you can always try it again at some point in the future to see if it is better for you, your machine and your files Aaargh, i have just upgraded this machine and can't get back into Seamonkey and all my lovely links! I tried hunting for the page on installing multiple instances of LibreOffice but couldn't find it :( Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 8/5/12, Paul Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Schwartz <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 8 May, 2012, 16:43 OK. The file is not compressed, but how do I find the xml stuff. There is a fair amount of plain text separated by many \00 and other things in red. Tutorial anyone? Paul >________________________________ > From: Paul Schwartz <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:30 AM >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file > >Thanks for the hints, but I have already done all those things. The default >Archive Manager in Ubuntu 12.04 is fileroller, and from the error messages >generated, it seems to use gzip for the compress/uncompress. I'm beginning to >think that the file may not be compressed. Next is to try gedit directly. > >Thanks again, but if I don't make some progress LO will get replaced with OO. > >Paul > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:01 AM >>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file >> >>On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: >>> ________________________________ >>> > From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >>> >To: [email protected] >>> >Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 8:02 PM >>> >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file >>> > >>> >On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:20 -0400, Jay Lozier wrote: >>> >> Paul, >>> >> >>> >> On 05/07/2012 07:11 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote: >>> >> > I recently installed Libre Office [default on a new Ubuntu 12.04 >>> >> > install]. I have a file that opens fine with Open Office but generates >>> >> > a Read error with Libre Office. >>> >> > >>> >> > Any clues on how to solve this problem? >>> >> > >>> >> > TIA >>> >> > >>> >> > Paul Schwartz >>> >> > >>> >> What is the error message? Also, can you post the file on Nabble so >>> >> someone can try to find the problem. >>> >> >>> >> A possible work around is to unzip the ods file to recover the xml data >>> >> file and then open that in LO. I forget what the default Ubuntu archive >>> >> utility is. >>> >> >>> > >>> >Neither gunzip nor fileroller/Archive Manager work. gunzip says >>> > >>> > gunzip STOCKS.ods >>> >gzip: STOCKS.ods: unknown suffix -- ignored >>> > >>> >Archive Manger says >>> > >>> >Could not open "STOCKS.ods" >>> > >>> >Archive type not supported. >>> > >>> >I tried changing the name to temp.zip; same thing. >>> > >>> >Paul >>> > >>> >> -- >>> >> Jay Lozier >>> >> [email protected] >>> > >>> > >>> > The name is Archive Manager, and the file name is fileroller. >>> > >>> >--Dan >> >> To change the name of the file, right click STOCKS.ods. Click >>Rename from the popup menu. Use the End key to move the cursor to the >>end of STOCKS.ods. Use the back arrow to remove "ods". Enter zip in its >>place. You should not see STOCKS.zip. If you do, type Enter. 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