Marc wrote:
Hi again,
Still on the same problem as below... In particular, I would appreciate very
much help on the following procedure : I believe it is possible to recover at
least the first half part of the file, since the first half of content.xml is
not altered. However, all my attempts at it (even pasting the second half
from an ancient backup) are unsuccessful : even when the xml structure is
validated by kate, OOwriter asks for a filter when opening the document and
if I tell "OpenDocument Text" then I get a blank page...
Regards,
Marc
Le Mardi 9 Mai 2006 02:21, Marc a écrit :
Hi,
I've been using OpenOffice 2 lately, and I'm now facing a big problem :
one of my odt files got corrupted. Unfortunately, OpenOffice was not set up
to backup files automatically, and I transfered the corrupted file to my
usb key before noticing the problem, so I'm left with that corrupted file
and a very old backup.
Following the howtos I found on OpenOffice's site, I could unzip the
file.
The problem is the following : content.xml has a bad CRC and the second
half of it is entirely corrupted. I tried also, as was indicated in some
message of the mailing list, to fix the CRC problem using pkzip utilities ;
this did not solve anything.
Could you tell me if there any other way to recover the archive ? I will
send the archive to anybody willing to help.
Thanks in advance,
Marc
What OS?
Search your HDD for a file that may be close to the name of the file or
on the date the file was saved. It may be a temp file that could be
recovered. Worth a try. If the HDD hasn't been used much, you may be
able to use a HDD scanning software package and find deleted files. You
may find a copy that isn't corrupted.
From the content.xml, can you extract the text as a text file? You
will have to reformat but at least the text will be recovered. Open the
file in an XML editor and copy the data across.
Did you have any issues unzipping the file? If not, then the corruption
occurred during the save of the file, not after. This could point to a bug.
The beginning of the content.xml file is all the formatting and style
definitions.
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Robin Laing
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