> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:14:10 +0100
> From: m...@scottsonline.org.uk
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Subject: [users] Re: data corruption, presentation gone, PLEASE help URGENT
>
> On 14/04/11 00:47, Britton Kerin wrote:
> > Actually its my girlfriend's thesis presentation. I pitched linux to her
> > though.
> >
> > It went like this:
> >
> > 1. She added some photos to her presentation.
> > 2. Closed an open oowriter document by clicking close window button.
> > 3. It asked Force Quit she said yes.
> > 4. This inadvertently closed the presentation window as well.
> > 5. She opened the presentation again and got a message saying the filr
> > was corrupted and needed to be repaired. But when repaired it was
> > empty.
> >
> > The file was originally 120 MB but now its 17 MB. But if there is any hope
> > of recovering even the text contents that would be wonderful, we would be
> > so grateful. I've posted the corrupted file here:
> >
> > http://brittonkerin.com/presentation/nonreco.odp
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Britton
>
> I think you're sunk.
>
> After downloading and renaming as a zip file, trying to open it (ubuntu)
> gives
>
> Archive: /dhome/mike/nonreco.zip
> [/dhome/mike/nonreco.zip]
> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /dhome/mike/nonreco.zip or
> /dhome/mike/nonreco.zip.zip, and cannot find
> /dhome/mike/nonreco.zip.ZIP, period.
>
>
> "Force quit" is a drastic step, and kills an application without giving
> it a chance to exit gracefully. The zip file has presumably been
> truncated while it was being written out. Not a good thing to do to any
> software if you expect useful results from it. She'll have to go back to
> her last backup, I reckon.
>
>
> (I hope I'm wrong though! But if you're over 100Mb of compressed data
> short, something's got to have been lost.)
>
>
>
> (Incidentally, I had to use wget to download your file; firefox just
> hung for some reason. Weird.)
>
>
> --
> Mike Scott
> Harlow, Essex, England
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