derxen Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me with this one. I have a .sxw file that I cannot open anymore: it gives a read error. I can open it in emacs. Is there a way to make it readable again for OOo? I have mandrake linux 9.0, OOo1.0.1. I suspect it may have gone bad during a ftp transaction to work. It may also have to do with the fact that at work I use windows, with OOo1.0.2, and the file goes back and forth a lot. Please help! (I have no other copy anymore, after I stupidly overwrote it with the bad one.) derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted May 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 Just fixed it with a windows program called Advanced Zip Repair. OpenOffice saves its documents as zip-files, and there was a bad crc. Does anyone know of a linux alternative for Advanced Xip Repair? derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 8, 2003 Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 That's the first time I heard of openoffice using zip file as primary safe mode. I thought sxw is supposed to be xml based. Anyway, good job in solving your problem. I have searched for a similar utilties for linux and can find none, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted May 8, 2003 Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 Have you tried opening as a text file to see what you can see? Use your favorite editor or vi.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted May 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 OpenOffice files are xml-based, but they're also compressed using zip. I didn't know that either, but now I know why they're so much smaller than ms-office files. So when you open one in emacs or vi, it's not readable, except for the bits describing the subdirectories (layout, content, styles, etc). derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 In the new version of openoffice, optenoffice can repair soem small errors...so maybe this won't happen in teh future... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted May 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 Do you mean 1.0.3 or 1.1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 think 1.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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