RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

Thanks for sending me the file.

WinZip confirmed that the file is damaged and not usable.  

I looked at it in a hex editor and confirmed that it is indeed an ODF Text (.odt) file.  The 
initial part of the Zip is there, and then suddenly the data is all zeros starting in the middle of 
a PNG image that is part of the document.  The file is completely 00 bytes until nearly the end, 
where a part of the file entry for META-INF/manifest.xml appears.  Even that appears to be damaged 
and the end of the file may have been truncated or not produced yet.

There is no recoverable information of any value whatsoever in the file.

Sorry,

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 18:57
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: 'JeepNut'
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

Oh wait,

I have a bad feeling about this.  

You don't still have the Kwrite file?  You took the Kwrite file into LibreOffice and started to 
edit it?  Did it ever get save as a different file, or did you save it atop the Kwrite file, with 
the original no-file-extension name?

I'd like to see that too.

The list won't transfer attachments.  But you can send it as an attachment to me directly.  I am 
very curious what beast that is.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: JeepNut [mailto:JeepNut@zoho.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 18:21
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

Thanks for making a stab at this Tom.

Here is the file.  Was saved as a common text file originally with 
Kwrite so it had no file extension.
Subsequently I got more complex with it and started edit it in 
LibreOffice.  So I have to assume it saved as an .odt file, but the 
extension was never shown.

Steve (aka JeepNut)



On 07/22/2011 02:00 PM, Tom Davies [via Document Foundation Mail 
Archive] wrote:
> Hi :)
> If it's saved in odt or docX then you could try opening the file with 
> an archive
> manager.  I might be able to have a look in Ubuntu using LibreOffice 
> 3.3.2 if
> you send me the attachment off-list.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] help recovering?
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> I do not know if this will help, but viewers can be more forgiving than
> editors.
>
> Try
>
> http://www.officeviewers.com/
>
> or
>
> http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/EN/index_3.html
>
> if it does - you will have to copy & paste back into LO again
>
> you might have to google a few more until you find one that works.
>
> regards
>
> John B
>
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>
>
> On 22/07/2011 17:42, 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?
> >
> >
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