[libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

On 07/22/2011 09:42 AM, JeepNut wrote:
> Hoping for some good news here.
> Am using the openSuSE branded version of LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO330m19
> (Build:301) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1 on openSuSE 11.3 and KDE 4.4.4-1.5.
>
> Was editing a document that is pretty important (to me at least) and during
> the process had tried to add a footnote.
> I was editing the text in the footnote and almost immediately there was some
> flashing of the screen and LibreOffice crashed, locking up the entire PC. 
> No mouse control, no keyboard control, nothing.
> So I had to "reset" the PC.
> Now the document is fubar.  When I try to open it, LibreOffice attempts to
> recover but fails.
> Then it tries to repair the file but opens only a blank page.
> I've tried to open it without an extension and get a list of a variety of
> application types to attempt any modicum of recovery, but no matter what I
> try to open it with it either fails, or opens in a file of unreadable
> gibberish.
> I'd be THRILLED if someone would be able to actually recover this document
> for me.
> Nothing secret in it, I'd be happy to email it to anyone who'd like to give
> it a try.  Even just to get back the text out of it  so that I could rebuild
> would be fabulous.
>
> Any chance at all to recover?
...
Open it with archive manager and see if there is any info in
content.xml. Any surviable text should be in that file.

BTW: Do you by chance have an intel graphics card in your system?



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