In addition --- this won't work if the document you corrupted was in .doc format.
Alternatively if you want to send (if it is not confidential) it to my address I can try to open with beta2.0 ?? I'll leave it to you... /paul On 6/3/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elias Parchas wrote: > > Dear users, > > I am a new user of OpenOffice and I use the last stable release 1.1.4 > > I was editing a text document created with the word processor of > > OpenOffice. > > The name of the document is case_3 > > At one point I had the great idea to open an other file with the same > > name from a different directory! > > And the software crashed (expected). > > I tried to open the first file again. The open office came up with a > > message that the file is corrupted and it will try to recover it. > > But unfortunately it gave me a blank page. > > The size of the file is big 11.8Mb and contains many pictures. Most of > > them are imported as graphics, but one of them has been copy pasted from > > ms word. > > I am using microsoft windows os and I want to recover my file if > > possible. > > I do not care about the pictures but for the text. > > The text is in Greek. > > > > Thank you very much in advance > > > > Elias Parchas > > > > Open office files are compressed with zip. You can use any unzip > program to unzip the file. Do this in a seperate directory and you > should have a list of files including your graphics. > > It would depend on if the other program overwrote your data or not. > > Good luck. > > -- > Robin Laing > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
