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Yeah, as Bob just said, it looks like it's not the contents of the
zip that have been corrupted, but the zip file itself - hence why
Archive Manager won't open it.<br>
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Aparently, the 'zip' tool can have a stab at recovering what it can
and writing it into a fresh zip file:<br>
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zip -FF indie\ post\ corruption.odt --out rezipped.zip<br>
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Then if you extract the resulting 'rezipped.zip' file, it gets as
far as a JPEG image, then gives up. The image data in the JPEG file
only looks to be about 3/4 present, so I'd guess the zip file was
truncated when it was being saved.<br>
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That's about as far as I got, anyway.<br>
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Ste<br>
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It looks as though it's been truncated<br>
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On 19/04/12 21:56, Daniel Hartley wrote:
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It wont following the suggestions you gave unfortunately. However,
there is data in the file. Being cheeky and using my
unknowledgeable status to try to authorise it, I've attached the
renamed file and the original in the hope some sympathetic
individual might be able to help me out. Been working on this
thing for months.... Thanks so much if you do give it a go. I
promise to buy a round when I do come to a meeting.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Daniel.<br>
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On 19/04/12 21:39, Stephen Watkin wrote:
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Depending on the exact flavour of corruption (and if it's a
native open document file), you might be able to open the file
in your favourite zip file manager and extract the contents that
way. ODF files are just a bunch of zipped-up XML files after
all. I just tried it on Ubuntu 11.10 - rename the file and stick
'.zip' on the end, open it in 'Archive Manager' and see if you
can open the 'contents.xml' file in a text editor.<br>
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Ste<br>
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On 19/04/12 21:32, Daniel Hartley wrote:
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type="cite"> It's interesting you just send this out. I would
generally completely agree; however half an hour ago a
document I've been working on for months became corrupted
using LibreOffice and I'm now spending the night trying to
salvage it from elsewhere......<br>
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Alas, the tribulations of an unknowledgeable Linux user unable
to configure a properly working system...<br>
<br>
Regards.<br>
<br>
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I saw this and thought it might be of interest:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html">http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html</a>
It's a little shallow and completely ignores issues of freedom but it's
an interesting read. The fact that it comes from a long-established
technology publication is, I think a sign of how appropriate it has
become to use free software alternatives to common proprietary desktop
software.
A wonderful quote:
"Really, the superficial conventional wisdom has the wrong view
entirely. It's not LibreOffice Writer that needs to catch up to MS
Word. From an expert's perspective, it's frequently MS Word that needs
to catch up [to] LibreOffice Writer."
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