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problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:48 pm
by smilebef
I use the newest linux-kernel, since this i get some times a wrong character from keyboard-input.
Now i have a problem, o-office crashs if i try to load a file.ods .
i'm shure there is a spezial wrong character in my file but how can i edit this file and remove this character.
Because ooffice crashs every time, if it try to recover it.

any solutions?

Danks Andrei

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:55 pm
by ccornell
I can open the file you attached... no errors, no crashes.

What version of OpenOffice.org are you using? What Linux distribution? Are you using the OOo prepared by the Linux vendor? or the "official" OOo (example, there have been problems reported with the build of OOo provided with the latest Ubuntu)?

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:57 pm
by smilebef
can you convert to several different format and post it?

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:00 pm
by ccornell
Try this....

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:01 pm
by smilebef
I use oo2.3 debian (knoppix) with debian unstable dist-upgrade.

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:03 pm
by smilebef
no chance oo chrashs

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:07 pm
by smilebef
Possible i must remove all files in .office/ ?

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:23 pm
by Hagar Delest
No problem with your file for me with OOo 2.3.1 (official version) and Ubuntu.

Try to rename your OOo user profile (~/.openoffice.org2).

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:47 am
by kingfisher
Your file is an archive so you may be able to open it with something like file-roller. I forget what the components are but one of them shows the contents of the file. You could look through that and delete anything that looks out of order. Then archive the components as a zip file and change the file extension to .ods.

Re: problem while file recovery

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:16 pm
by Hagar Delest
kingfisher wrote:one of them shows the contents of the file.
content.xml file.

But it may be difficult to spot the wrong character that makes OOo crash. Have you tried to rename your OOo profile ? Perhaps a configuration file related to the locale is damaged.