Hi : It's ok. It's nice to hear ideas to try. Even a wrong answer might help someone else or "by bouncing ideas off each other" we might arrive at the best answers.
I was fairly sure your method would work but hadn't got around to trying it out so thanks for doing that and getting back to the list with the results. I think Alex had already said that method wouldn't work but i "never believe anything until it's been denied by a government minister" (i am not sure where that quote is from) Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: ZP <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 12 September 2013, 21:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] the password of Libreoffice > Well, here's a shot in the dark. The .odt fileis simply a container > (like a .zipfile). Use a program like 7-zip (confirmed to work) and > extract the content.xml file. It won't be clean, but you may be able to: > > 1) copy the content.xml into a new.odt file without password > protection, or... > 2) just open the content.xml file directly in LO. You'll have a lot > of xml data in there...so its quite messy. > > |ZP| > Disregard my last message. You can open the .odt file in 7-zip, or Gnome Archive Manager, or whatever...unfortunately, the content.xml is scrambled after password protection. My apologies for the misdirection. |ZP| -- To unsubscribe 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 -- To unsubscribe 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
