Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

Tom Davies <tomdavies04 -AT- yahoo.co.uk>
Thu, 10 May 2012 20:38:20 +0100 (BST)

Hi :)
Nicely done :)
Regard from
Tom :)

--- On Thu, 10/5/12, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Thursday, 10 May, 2012, 20:24

Just in case others might have the same problem:

I used OO to save my file in .xls. LO would then open it successfully, and I could save it back to 
.ods [which both OO and LO could open].

HTH somebody.

Paul

________________________________
From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

Hi :)
That is where i get completely stuck, especially if i can see the xml.  Luckily my text editor can 
be switched from reading "Plain text" to "html/css" which just about covers xml too so at least i 
can roughly work out which bits are the texts.  With no xml at all or very little then i would be 
very stuck.  

Is everything in Csv format with commas between columns and a new-line for a new row?  If so then 
copy&paste sounds like one possible but messy route!

Tbh if OpenOffice can deal with this file and LO can't then i would recommend either having both 
installed or just going back to OpenOffice for a while.  They are so similar in code-base and 
ideals that it's not worth struggling.  Of course LO is better but you can always try it again at 
some point in the future to see if it is better for you, your machine and your files

Aaargh, i have just upgraded this machine and can't get back into Seamonkey and all my lovely 
links!  I tried hunting for the page on installing multiple instances of LibreOffice but couldn't 
find it :(
Regards from
Tom :)




--- On Tue, 8/5/12, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Tuesday, 8 May, 2012, 16:43

OK. The file is not compressed, but how do I find the xml stuff. There is a fair amount of plain 
text separated by many \00 and other things in red.

Tutorial anyone?

Paul

________________________________
From: Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115@yahoo.com>
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

Thanks for the hints, but I have already done all those things. The default Archive Manager in 
Ubuntu 12.04 is fileroller, and from the error messages generated, it seems to use gzip for the 
compress/uncompress. I'm beginning to think that the file may not be compressed. Next is to try 
gedit directly.

Thanks again, but if I don't make some progress LO will get replaced with OO.

Paul

________________________________
From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote:

________________________________

From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:20 -0400, Jay Lozier wrote:

Paul,

On 05/07/2012 07:11 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote:

I recently installed Libre Office [default on a new Ubuntu 12.04 install]. I have a file 
that opens fine with Open Office but generates a Read error with Libre Office.

Any clues on how to solve this problem?

TIA

Paul Schwartz

What is the error message? Also, can you post the file on Nabble so 
someone can try to find the problem.

A possible work around is to unzip the ods file to recover the xml data 
file and then open that in LO. I forget what the default Ubuntu archive 
utility is.


Neither gunzip nor fileroller/Archive Manager work. gunzip says

gunzip STOCKS.ods
gzip: STOCKS.ods: unknown suffix -- ignored

Archive Manger says

Could not open "STOCKS.ods"

Archive type not supported.

I tried changing the name to temp.zip; same thing.

Paul

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com



    The name is Archive Manager, and the file name is fileroller.

--Dan


     To change the name of the file, right click STOCKS.ods. Click
Rename from the popup menu. Use the End key to move the cursor to the
end of STOCKS.ods. Use the back arrow to remove "ods". Enter zip in its
place. You should not see STOCKS.zip. If you do, type Enter. Now apply
gzip to it.

--Dan



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Context

Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file (continued)
- Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Jay Lozier
  - Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Dan Lewis
    - Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Paul Schwartz
      - Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Tom Davies
        
        [libreoffice-users] Re: Read error on .ods file · Andreas Säger
      - Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Dan Lewis
        
        Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Paul Schwartz
        
        Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Paul Schwartz
        
        Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Tom Davies
        Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Paul Schwartz
        Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Tom Davies
  - Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file · Paul Schwartz
- [libreoffice-users] Re: Read error on .ods file · Tom

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