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

The archive manager uses other archive utilities to actually manipulate archives.

Try using 7zip directly if that is on your system.

It has a test option.  It will test the document for integrity and also report on what files are in 
it.

*Inside* of the document package there will be a content.xml file.  If that file is present and is 
reported to be correct, you can extract it.  

7zip has a command line operation (named 7z or 7za).

Here's an example using a command line and 7za.exe in a Windows console session:

C:\command>7za t OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt

7-Zip (A) 4.42  Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov  2006-05-14

Processing archive: OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt

Testing     mimetype
Testing     Configurations2\statusbar
Testing     Configurations2\accelerator\current.xml
Testing     Configurations2\floater
Testing     Configurations2\popupmenu
Testing     Configurations2\progressbar
Testing     Configurations2\toolpanel
Testing     Configurations2\menubar
Testing     Configurations2\toolbar
Testing     Configurations2\images\Bitmaps
Testing     content.xml
Testing     manifest.rdf
Testing     styles.xml
Testing     meta.xml
Testing     Thumbnails\thumbnail.png
Testing     settings.xml
Testing     META-INF\manifest.xml

Everything is Ok

C:\command>7za e OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt content.xml

7-Zip (A) 4.42  Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov  2006-05-14

Processing archive: OOo-CustomProp-Export-2011-07-21-1613.odt

Extracting  content.xml

Everything is Ok

C:\command>

The content.xml file will be in XML markup format.  There is a *lot* of markup.  it is tricky to 
remove the markup and leave just the text.  

If a Zip utility will not access the document, or reports that it is corrupt, you may need to track 
down a Zip repair utility.  I have no experience with those and can make no recommendation.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: JeepNut [mailto:JeepNut@zoho.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 17:50
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [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?



Nope.  XFX GEForce 6800 GS 256Mb,

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