Hi :) I've heard Emacs is excellent. Good choice. It's pretty rare for LO to corrupt anything. If anything goes wrong with a document it's usually due to some other 3rd party tool (such as Word) and even then it only seems to be DocX or in rare cases Doc. We've only had a couple of cases of Odts going wrong in the whole of the last 2 years as far as i can remember. Not bad out of 60million users! Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 5 January 2013, 18:54 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupted File On 01/05/2013 04:31 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:Hi Joel, Joel Madero schrieb:Hi All, I have a corrupted file and it's important, hoping I can recover -- my backup works but it's a month old and it's missing some data, worst case it'll do but I'd prefer getting the up to date one fixed. Error is: Read-Error. Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 2,1197863(row,col). When I try opening content.xml with firefox I get XML Parsing Error: duplicate attribute Location: file:///tmp/.fr-lMJsLA/content.xml Line Number 2, Column 1197864: Any suggestions on how to fix this? Not confidential information so I can send it to someone to look at. Thanks in advanceI have currently not time enough to repair it for you, but here is, what you need to do: - Make a copy of the file and work on the copy. - Unzip the file. Depending on your unpacker, you might need to change the filename-extension from .odt to .zip. You will get a folder. - Go inside the folder. You will see the file content.xml - Open the file with an editor, that is able to handle UTF8 and Unix line ends. - Go to the place, which is given in the error message. You will see two identical parts of the kind foo="bar". Remove one of them. Save the file. Be sure to use UTF8 and Unix line ends. - Mark all content of the folder and zip it. You will get a file, with filename-extension .zip. Change the filename-extension to .odt. If all went well, you can open the file now. If it is not a text file, you have of cause to use the appropriate filename-extension. Kind regards ReginaExcellent, thanks for the advice to both of you. I used emacs and discovered the error - my bigger concern now is that LibO did this to begin with :-/ Best Regards and Thanks Again, Joel -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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