On 14/04/11 00:47, Britton Kerin wrote:
Actually its my girlfriend's thesis presentation. I pitched linux to her though.
It went like this:
1. She added some photos to her presentation.
2. Closed an open oowriter document by clicking close window button.
3. It asked Force Quit she said yes.
4. This inadvertently closed the presentation window as well.
5. She opened the presentation again and got a message saying the filr
was corrupted and needed to be repaired. But when repaired it was
empty.
The file was originally 120 MB but now its 17 MB. But if there is any hope
of recovering even the text contents that would be wonderful, we would be
so grateful. I've posted the corrupted file here:
http://brittonkerin.com/presentation/nonreco.odp
Thanks,
Britton
I think you're sunk.
After downloading and renaming as a zip file, trying to open it (ubuntu)
gives
Archive: /dhome/mike/nonreco.zip
[/dhome/mike/nonreco.zip]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /dhome/mike/nonreco.zip or
/dhome/mike/nonreco.zip.zip, and cannot find
/dhome/mike/nonreco.zip.ZIP, period.
"Force quit" is a drastic step, and kills an application without giving
it a chance to exit gracefully. The zip file has presumably been
truncated while it was being written out. Not a good thing to do to any
software if you expect useful results from it. She'll have to go back to
her last backup, I reckon.
(I hope I'm wrong though! But if you're over 100Mb of compressed data
short, something's got to have been lost.)
(Incidentally, I had to use wget to download your file; firefox just
hung for some reason. Weird.)
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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