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I recently installed Libre Office [default on a new Ubuntu 12.04 install]. I have a file that opens fine with Open Office but generates a Read error with Libre Office.
Any clues on how to solve this problem?
TIA
Paul Schwartz
Paul,
I recently installed Libre Office [default on a new Ubuntu 12.04 install]. I have a file that opens fine with Open Office but generates a Read error with Libre Office.
Any clues on how to solve this problem?
TIA
Paul Schwartz
What is the error message? Also, can you post the file on Nabble so someone can try to find the problem.
A possible work around is to unzip the ods file to recover the xml data file and then open that in LO. I forget what the default Ubuntu archive utility is.
The name is Archive Manager, and the file name is fileroller.
--Dan
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Hi 
"Archive Manager" is the generic name that covers a large number of different programs such as the ones you have found. I heard that something like 7up (i thought that was a drink) was a good one along with WinRar, WinZip and others.
It should be possible to just rename the file from
something.ods
to
something.zip
and then just double-click on it. I would make a copy of the file first tho!
The term "Archive Manager" is like "Web browser" in that there are a lot of web-browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Chrome and so on.
Regards from
Tom
Hi
Ahh, i assumed Windows. So, forget the 7whatever. Ubuntu's default one is
good
There is a Community Documentation page about data-recovery
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
but possibly the best thing is to try to find a back-up copy, perhaps a
version you emailed someone or that got emailed to you, or a copy on
usb-stick or maybe you have one version on a network folder and one on a
desktop machine.
By default i think LO doesn't back-up files but you might have had the
option checked so it's worth checking in the "Backup" folder in your
user-profile
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
If you can upload the file to our Nabble interface then maybe people here
could have a look and suggest something.
Regards from
Tom
Am 08.05.2012 12:49, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi
"Archive Manager" is the generic name that covers a large number of different programs such as the ones you have found. I heard that something like 7up (i thought that was a drink) was a good one along with WinRar, WinZip and others.It should be possible to just rename the file from
something.ods
to
something.zip
and then just double-click on it. I would make a copy of the file first tho!The term "Archive Manager" is like "Web browser" in that there are a lot of web-browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Chrome and so on.
Regards from
Tom
That was Tom speaking.
To change the name of the file, right click STOCKS.ods. Click
Rename from the popup menu. Use the End key to move the cursor to the
end of STOCKS.ods. Use the back arrow to remove "ods". Enter zip in its
place. You should not see STOCKS.zip. If you do, type Enter. Now apply
gzip to it.
--Dan
Thanks for the hints, but I have already done all those things. The default Archive Manager in Ubuntu 12.04 is fileroller, and from the error messages generated, it seems to use gzip for the compress/uncompress. I'm beginning to think that the file may not be compressed. Next is to try gedit directly.
Thanks again, but if I don't make some progress LO will get replaced with OO.
Paul
OK. The file is not compressed, but how do I find the xml stuff. There is a fair amount of plain text separated by many \00 and other things in red.
Tutorial anyone?
Paul
Hi
That is where i get completely stuck, especially if i can see the xml. Luckily my text editor can be switched from reading "Plain text" to "html/css" which just about covers xml too so at least i can roughly work out which bits are the texts. With no xml at all or very little then i would be very stuck.
Is everything in Csv format with commas between columns and a new-line for a new row? If so then copy&paste sounds like one possible but messy route!
Tbh if OpenOffice can deal with this file and LO can't then i would recommend either having both installed or just going back to OpenOffice for a while. They are so similar in code-base and ideals that it's not worth struggling. Of course LO is better but you can always try it again at some point in the future to see if it is better for you, your machine and your files
Aaargh, i have just upgraded this machine and can't get back into Seamonkey and all my lovely links! I tried hunting for the page on installing multiple instances of LibreOffice but couldn't find it 
Regards from
Tom
Just in case others might have the same problem:
I used OO to save my file in .xls. LO would then open it successfully, and I could save it back to .ods [which both OO and LO could open].
HTH somebody.
Paul
Hi
Nicely done
Regard from
Tom