Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 corrupted existing ODT document

Hi 
Ouch! :(  Pictures do sometimes go missing and i thought that was common to all versions of 
LibreOffice and OpenOffice?  There is a bug-report about it but it seems that there are a number of 
different combinations of variables so it's been impossible to pin down specific causes.  The 
Documentation Team try to keep a separate zip file of all the pictures in a particular guide just 
in case this happens.  It's fairly rare tho.  

Best plan seems to be to start a new fresh document in a newer version of LibreOffice and then 
copy&paste the contents of the old document to try to get rid of any lurking old and unused 
formatting and stuff.  

You can open odt documents as though they are zip-files.  Easiest way, first time, is to create a 
copy of the document and change the file-ending from .odt to .zip.  Then just double-click on the 
.zip.  You can also just right-click on the odt and choose to "Open with ..." an archive manager 
such as WinZip or WinRar or something.  

When looking at the file as an archive you see a folder called "Pictures" or "Images" or something. 
 Perhaps copying one of those in from an older version of the file might fix it?  Definitely make 
sure you back-up the file as it is now, before trying any of these tricks tho!  I haven't tried it 
out myself!

If you like xml then the file called "contents.xml" in the archive might be good to work with.  
It's not nicely spaced tho so it looks impenetrable especially if you are new to xml/hmtl/css.  A 
text editor like SciTe, Gedit, Kate or my other are great at colour-coding the coding to make it 
slightly less painful to read.  

In terms of data-recovery have you backed-up the file recently, or the whole folder or a routine 
back-up of the machine, or emailed the document or got it on usb-stick or another computer?  I tend 
to find that even if i do regular rigorous and time-consuming back-ups only 1 file gets corrupted 
or vanishes and that is the one that has not been backed-up.  Murphy's Law?  The ones i do back-up 
are never needed.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 16/2/12, Ethan Swint <eswint@vt.edu> wrote:

From: Ethan Swint <eswint@vt.edu>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 corrupted existing ODT document
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 16 February, 2012, 16:03

LO 3.5 (on M$ Win 7) messed up an ODT document I had created in 3.3.  Images were lost and not 
recoverable when I went back to 3.4.5.

-Ethan

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