[libreoffice-users] Re: "Message URL seems to be an unsupported one" when importing .sdw files

On 02/20/2011 02:30 AM, C Evans wrote:
> Somewhere along the development path OO/LO has lost the facility to open 
> StarOffice 1.x ".sdw" (Writer) files directly.
>
> I have just switched from OO to LO, and have a small number of old sdw 
> files I need to open and update to the .odt file format.
>
> The LO help says to use the file import wizard, but when I tried this on 
> a folder containing (amongst some other files) 5 .sdw files, I hit the 
> error-
>
>     BASIC runtime error
>     An exception occurred
>     type com.sun.start.lang.IllegalArgumentException
>     Message URL seems to be an unsupported one
>
> At this point the BASIC window is hung, you can't exit the script 
> because it says it's still running, but the stop button in the macro 
> window is inactive. The only way out is to kill off soffice.bin from the 
> task manager, nasty.

...

Possibly this bug:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105810
[SDW from SO3 having table in footer loops import in OOo3]
I can open the works.sdw without issue in both OOo and LO, but the
crashes.sdw loops both & I have to kill soffice.bin to get out.



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