[Liverpool] How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word

[Hartley, Daniel]

You are a star for trying. I have a back up but will have lost a days work including some tricky tables summarising how i think independent music emerged. I wish I'd listened to myself and left work rather than going for a few more minutes. Ah well. Thanks again. I owe you a drink.

Regards,

Daniel.

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On 19 Apr 2012, at 22:46, "Chambers, Simon" <S.J.Chambers at 2011.ljmu.ac.uk> wrote:

> I've had a look, and it appears that the file was truncated mid-write,
> it's missing the end header, and an indeterminent proportion of the
> contents, there is one image in the file, which has appears to be a map
> of liverpool, and which comprises nearly all of the what is available in
> document, but has also been truncated within the file itself. Apart from
> a couple of  I can't find any text remaining in the file either.
> 
> Unfortunately this is beyond my ability to recover.
> 
> Sorry :S
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:56 +0100, Daniel Hartley wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Daniel.
>> 
>> On 19/04/12 21:39, Stephen Watkin wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Ste
>>> 
>>> On 19/04/12 21:32, Daniel Hartley wrote:
>>>> 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......
>>>> 
>>>> Alas, the tribulations of an unknowledgeable Linux user unable to
>>>> configure a properly working system...
>>>> 
>>>> Regards.
>>>> 
>>>> On 19/04/12 21:29, Bob Ham wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I saw this and thought it might be of interest:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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