[libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Urmas]

"Jacob Marioni":

All of my ODT won't open properly.

Open them with Notepad. If they do not start with PK letters, it is 
corrupted. Use ZIP repair tools to try to fix them. 




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[libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Jacob Marioni]

-I tried changing my "user profile", but that didn't work

-When I open the files with Notepad, the text is in a different language:
Ḣ鈓䣪桠榤嘳斵䬝ꎆ붏蟀뵔䔽얩턖ѳ腵超쉫뱁䎾⻩䃬➤

-I'll try to upload the file so people can look at it, but how do I do that?
Can I just upload it here on the forum?

At_Least_you_Have_Something!.odt

  




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Kracked_P_P---webmaster]

On 01/10/2014 09:47 AM, Urmas wrote:

"Jacob Marioni":

All of my ODT won't open properly.

Open them with Notepad. If they do not start with PK letters, it is 
corrupted. Use ZIP repair tools to try to fix them.





What do you mean by ZIP repair tools?

I know what ZIP is and I use compression software on both Windows and 
Linux, so the "repair tools" is the part of the question that needs 
clarification.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Cley Faye]

2014/1/10 Jacob Marioni 

> -I tried changing my "user profile", but that didn't work
>
> -When I open the files with Notepad, the text is in a different language:
> Ḣ鈓䣪桠榤嘳斵䬝ꎆ붏蟀뵔䔽얩턖ѳ腵超쉫뱁䎾⻩䃬➤
>
> -I'll try to upload the file so people can look at it, but how do I do
> that?
> Can I just upload it here on the forum?
>
> At_Least_you_Have_Something!.odt
> <
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4091641/At_Least_you_Have_Something%21.odt
> >
>
>
Yes, you can. I supposed that you used the mailinglist, which strip
attachments, but uploading through nabble is fine.

Unfortunately, none of my tools is able to find any correspondance between
your file and known archive formats. Maybe someone more specialized will
have more luck, but by the look of it I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
As the data looks random, either you've encountered a serious hard-disk
corruption (unlikely to have gone unnoticed by the filesystem itself), or
some malware/virus really altered your data.​​

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Tom Davies]

Hi :(
Sorry about that!  I just tried opening the file here but it would
open.  Then i renamed the file-ending from .odt to .zip but that
wouldn't open.  I tried changing it to .docX on a whim but without MS
Office that was never going to be any different so i don't know why i
even tried it!

I tried opening with GEdit (= a lot like Notepad) but the 1st 2
letters were not PK and then i checked a different Odt that someone
else sent me earlier and that did start with PK.  I'm not convinced
about the whole PK thing but it's interesting

I didn't yet try finding some tool for fixing zip files.  it might be
worth testing on a copy of a couple of files.  There might be an odt
fixing tool around the internet somewhere too.
Apols and regards from
Tom :)



On 10 January 2014 20:54, Jacob Marioni  wrote:
> -I tried changing my "user profile", but that didn't work
>
> -When I open the files with Notepad, the text is in a different language:
> Ḣ鈓䣪桠榤嘳斵䬝ꎆ붏蟀뵔䔽얩턖ѳ腵超쉫뱁䎾⻩䃬➤
>
> -I'll try to upload the file so people can look at it, but how do I do that?
> Can I just upload it here on the forum?
>
> At_Least_you_Have_Something!.odt
> 
>
>
>
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Mark Bourne]

Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :(
Sorry about that!  I just tried opening the file here but it would
open.  Then i renamed the file-ending from .odt to .zip but that
wouldn't open.  I tried changing it to .docX on a whim but without MS
Office that was never going to be any different so i don't know why i
even tried it!

I tried opening with GEdit (= a lot like Notepad) but the 1st 2
letters were not PK and then i checked a different Odt that someone
else sent me earlier and that did start with PK.  I'm not convinced
about the whole PK thing but it's interesting


All Zip files start with "PK", so the fact this file doesn't indicates 
that it's not a valid zip file (and therefore not a valid ODT file).



I didn't yet try finding some tool for fixing zip files.  it might be
worth testing on a copy of a couple of files.  There might be an odt
fixing tool around the internet somewhere too.
Apols and regards from
Tom :)


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

[Mark Bourne]

Jacob Marioni wrote:

-I tried changing my "user profile", but that didn't work

-When I open the files with Notepad, the text is in a different language:
Ḣ鈓䣪桠榤嘳斵䬝ꎆ붏蟀뵔䔽얩턖ѳ腵超쉫뱁䎾⻩䃬➤


That's because Notepad is interpreting the file as Unicode text. From 
Notepad, if you go File > Open, change "Encoding" to "ANSI" and then 
select the file to open, you'll see something similar to the extract you 
included in your original message.



-I'll try to upload the file so people can look at it, but how do I do that?
Can I just upload it here on the forum?

At_Least_you_Have_Something!.odt



Apart from the initial "PK" which others have mentioned, I can't see any 
of the other features which tend to be seen near the beginning and end 
of Zip files (such as the names of the files packed within the .zip). It 
looks like this file has either been encrypted by the virus (as someone 
else here suggested; it might help to know what the virus was), or both 
the beginning and end of the file have been lost which would also make 
it pretty much impossible to recover anything from a Zip file.


In case you're wondering why everyone's going on about Zip files, it's 
because ODT files are Zip files with the contents formatted in a 
particular way.


Easiest recovery is probably to restore the files from a recent backup...

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