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Thanks guys for your speedy responses. I thought there should be a
way to get round this but didn't know where to begin.<br>
<br>
<pre>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.</pre>
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I'll try and rescue it either tonight or over the weekend. <br>
<br>
<pre wrap="">If you need help configuring your system, we can help :-) Though I
would be surprised if a LibreOffice crash was due to misconfiguration.
Is there something else that isn't working?
</pre>
I think there is a slight graphics problem with Linux Mint 11. It
can freeze; which is what happened before. Not sure if that would be
due to LibreOffice Writer or a more general graphics problem (which
tends to more often occur when watching television online, but is
still very rare).<br>
<br>
I still haven't attended a LUG meeting yet; I generally just post
inane comments and make small requests over here. I do mean to come,
just a bit busy these current months while I conclude my Ph.D. Maybe
when my Rasberry Pi arrives I will come along....<br>
<br>
Regards.<br>
<br>
On 19/04/12 21:40, Bob Ham wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:1334868006.16472.188.camel@myrtle.6gnip.net"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 +0100, Daniel Hartley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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......
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I'm sorry to hear that. However, I don't think that's a problem which
is specific to LibreOffice. Indeed, the article explicitly mentions
that the author has common problems with Microsoft Word crashing whereas
LibreOffice Writer remains stable.
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<pre wrap="">Alas, the tribulations of an unknowledgeable Linux user unable to
configure a properly working system...
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</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">
If you need help configuring your system, we can help :-) Though I
would be surprised if a LibreOffice crash was due to misconfiguration.
Is there something else that isn't working?
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