Oh dear... this is not good. The content.xml is encrypted if you have password protected it. I'm assuming that your entering the correct password (since if you weren't it would advise you clearly that it wasn't). You cannot 'convert' the plain text version unless you have 1000's of years and all computers currently in existence (to crack the encryption that is).
OOo employs security that is much stronger than MS and therefore there are not software crackers available as there are for the office suite of products. I don't know if this is possible, but it may be an option to write a macro that opens the file, passes to it the correct password then as it reads the file into memory (decrypting as it goes) stores the content somewhere else (till it crashes that is). Just an idea, but I have no idea on how to implement - sorry. Hope it was nothing too important... /paul On 12/16/05, AON Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've created several .ods files with password protection (OO vers. 1.9.x). > With the latest, and older Versions of OppenOffice I'm no longer able > to open these document. An error message appear: "The file xxx is corrupted > and can not be opend. Should OO try to repear?" > > OO quits after the repear process without any further message. > > Question: > 1. Is there any way to get an ASCII dump of what OO has read till it quit. > 2. Is there any way to convert the "content.xml" to ASCII. > > > > Kind Regards > Christian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
