On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:59:17 -0400
Came this utterance formulated by John Kaufmann to my mailbox:

> Trying to open a Base file (that was apparently corrupted in saving),

First i'll make an assumption. As you are using the latest Thunderbird
on Vista you are probably using the latest OO.o. 

The vista dialogue box for saving has an option to untick adding of
automatic file extensions. If this was done then your database may not
be corrupt but misnamed. The correct extension is .odb for a database. 

> OO opens instead a "Filter Selection" pane, which implictly invites
> one to pick a filter that handles that file type.

Which if the database file was corrupt then it would not matter which
filter you applied. But you do have a second chance of recovering data
if you add a .zip extension and unpack the file. If it unpacks cleanly
then it was likely not corrupt.

As for the minor filter issue you have raised, i haven't addressed this
as it is the wrong forum for RFE's. Try here:
http://qa.openoffice.org/


-- 
Michael

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well

 - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416

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