On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:35:21 +0100 Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi List > > I have a colleague unable to open file.ods that was last opened a few > days. > > > 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 type $file SALARIES.ods : Microsoft Word Document, while the > others of the same type (.ods) are described as a zip compressed file. > The others (ods.files) open ok. > > I have tried running unzip -l SALARIES.ods No joy and I was unable to > open using MS Excel and Word. > > Message: > > unzip -l SALARIES.ods > Archive: SALARIES.ods > 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. > unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of SALARIES.ods or > SALARIES.ods.zip, and cannot find SALARIES.ods.ZIP, period > > > Any suggestions as this is a very important file. > > Cheers > To me, it sounds like what you are trying to say is you have a corrupt file. Even unzip does not like it. It sounds as if the corruption is in the zip definition part. Possibly the save was interrupted before the write was completed. In this explaination i may or may not be correct. If i am, does anyone have any experience in unzipping corrupt zip files, or know of any utility for such a purpose? -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
