On 04/11/2009 02:02 AM, Michael Adams wrote: > 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/ > >
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