Hi,

I just attempted to open a multi-page .ods file, estimated size of about 60k. A filter window came up, which I answered "opendocument spreadsheet" and it gave me a message box of "general error Input/Output error. When I look in properties, the file is 1.5k in size, and it is described as type: microsoft word document, while the others of the same type (.ods) are described as a zip compressed file. Oh, and they are are saved on an encrypted partition. The others open ok.

Is the file really an ods (OpenDocument spreadsheet) file? I'm asking because it seems that despite the extension, the MIME type seems to indicate otherwise (that it's a Word document) and the fact that the dialog asking you to pick the type manually pops up normally means that OOo couldn't assert by itself the file type.

To check, you could try and run unzip -l <ods file>, and see if it succeeds and lists the usual contents of an OOo file, i.e content.xml, styles.xml and others. If this doesn't work, then the file is not an OpenDocument saved by OOo and cannot be opened as such. You could try and open it with other filters, for instance the Microsoft document ones, since the MIME type seems to point in that direction.

Hope this helps,

Cyrille

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