On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:14:40 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) why would a file get corrupted simply by closing the file and > exiting the program, and again opening it the next day?
Quite possibly just a stray cosmic ray headed your way, i.e. random bad luck. Other possibilities are bad hardware (ram, hard drive failure, cables, etc), user error of some kind, software failure due to some interaction with other programs running on your computer, or maybe a bug in OpenOffice itself. > All other > files that i worked on the same day can easily be opened (and these > are all files that i did not need to password protect) And there-in lies a clue. Perhaps there is a bug in the Macintosh version of OpenOffice with regard to password protected files, or maybe the password function of OpenOffice brings out a bug in some other software that is running on your computer. Or not. You would have to do some further experimentation to determine the actual cause. > 2) OOo offers to repair the file and then claims that a wrong > password has been entered - so OOo treats the problem of the corrupt > file as one that could be solved. No, it treats the corrupt file as having a bad password as the first symptom. (The fact that the house is burning down does not change the fact that it needed a coat of paint.) > in any case: if the file is corrupt, is there any way i can restore it? Depending on the nature of the corruption, possibly not. The passwording will cause some problems; without that you could unzip the odt file and deal with the xml directly and quite possibly salvage part or most or even all of your file. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
